Beijing-based Baidu has taken the curtains off its OpenEdge platform at the on-going CES 2019 in Las Vegas USA.
Described as a “local package component” of Baidu’s Intelligent Edge (BIE) commercial software, OpenEdge looks to capitalize on the growth in Internet of Things (IoT) devices & growing AI adoption that are fueling demand of edge computing. BIE supports models trained with AI frameworks such as Baidu’s PaddlePaddle open source deep learning & TensorFlow.
Baidu also announced additional collaboration with Intel Corp. on “AI Box” hardware that incorporates Baidu’s edge computing technologies into vehicle cameras handling video analysis. The partners said the hardware would provision AI applications ranging from road recognition to driver behavior monitoring.
This extends collaboration between Baidu & Intel announced last summer that includes AI projects ranging from FPGA-backed workload acceleration, a deep learning framework based on Xeon scalable processors & implementation of a vision processing unit.
