Intel India announced a developer community initiative to boost Artificial Intelligence (AI) across the country.
Intel India will conduct AI Developer Education Program, by educating 15,000 scientists, developers, analysts, and engineers on key AI technologies, including Deep Learning and Machine Learning via 60 programs across the year.
Intel India has tied up technology companies such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Wipro, Julia Computing and Calligo Technologies, by enabling them with AI solutions based Intel architecture.
“As India undergoes digital transformation, the data center and the intelligence behind the data collected will enable the government and industry to make effective decisions based on algorithms. This means increasing opportunities for using AI in the country,” said Prakash Mallya, managing director, Intel South Asia.
Intel India is targeting BFSI, telecom, and e-commerce sectors, across High Performance Computing (HPC), big data, and Internet of Things — which are complementary to AI.
IIT Patna has been doing research and development in Artificial Intelligence, distributed computing, network security, social networks, and beyond, using data driven machine learning, as well as knowledge and deep learning based methods.
“Our research groups are working on implementation of algorithms in parallel environments, and using Intel based platforms and software tools to deploy, parallelize and optimize systems. Intel India has provided IIT Patna with the know-how to optimize Intel based AI platforms and technologies,” said Pushpak Bhattacharya, director, IIT Patna.
AI is the fastest growing workload in the data center, growing at two times the overall computing market. By 2020, the industry expects more servers running data analytics than any other workload, and analytics predictors will be built into every application.
Intel powers 97 percent of data center servers running AI workloads and offers the most flexible, yet performance-optimized portfolio of solutions.
Intel has tied up with tech companies such as Google and acquired companies like Saffron, Movidius, Nervana Systems and Mobileye to enhance Intel’s AI capabilities.
Last month, Intel also announced the Artificial Intelligence Products Group (AIPG) to align Intel’s AI efforts.
Intel also aims to set up an applied AI research lab dedicated to pushing the forefronts of computing to explore architectural and algorithmic approaches to inform future generations of AI. This includes a range of solutions from the data center to edge devices, and from training to inference to enable Intel and its customers to innovate faster.
