Intel’s Robert Blum joins host Jake Smith to talk about Intel’s broader connectivity group and how the company facilitates efficiently moving data between servers and across the data center with a wide range of products, including silicon photonics, Ethernet switches, accelerators and more. Robert discusses the advancements Intel has made in silicon photonics over the last four years since first launching 100GB transceivers and highlights the milestone of having shipped more than 5 million transceivers for hyperscale data centers to date. He goes into more detail about the industry’s explosive growth and the need for 800GB transceivers, which are now being sampled by customers in the field. Jake and Robert talk about the benefits of co-packaged optics with Barefoot switches, which are evolving from proof-of-concept to deployment in the coming years. Robert also touches on the future of silicon photonics, such as Mobileye’s application for LiDAR. 

Learn more at: https://intel.com/siliconphotonics
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The Future of Silicon Photonics at Scale - CitC Episode 230

sMedio’s George Tang joins host Jake Smith to talk about why the Japan-based, multi-media company looks to Intel to help with cost-effective solutions to train their facial recognition modules and cater to their scaling needs. The two discuss how Tensoflow optimizations helped improve training performance on Intel Xeon processors, the cost of cloud-based AI projects, the types of robotics products sMedio is developing, and the benefits of working with the Intel AI Builders program.  

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Optimizing AI for Japanese Robots - CitC Episode 238

Accubits’s Shameer Thaha joins host Jake Smith to talk about machine vision and predictive analytics. Shameer explains the use cases for the company’s Emotyx platform, such as real-time crowd analytics, people detection, counting, tracking, emotion detection, health care and more. Shameer goes into detail about the optimizations of the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO, using a single CPU system without GPU support at the edge, and some of Accubits’s projects around the world.

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Machine Vision Around the World - CitC Episode 242

Subtle Medical’s Ajit Shankaranarayanan joins host Jake Smith to talk about using deep learning to improve positron emission tomography (PET) scans. Ajit explains how the company's SubtlePET software allows hospitals and imaging centers to improve image quality on their accelerated scan protocols, which centers can choose to do in order to offer an improved and safer patient experience during imaging procedures. He also discusses why Subtle Medical uses the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO Toolkit to accelerate and seamlessly integrate their technology into the existing clinical computing infrastructure across different vendors and what he sees as the future of AI in medical imagining.

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Integrating AI into Hospital Infrastructure - CitC Episode 243

Sharath Puranik, Director of Product & Engineering at Stylumia, talks with host Jake Smith about how Stylumia leverages machine learning to improve product assortments, optimize inventory management, and offer a consumer-driven forecast to reduce waste in the fashion and lifestyle industry. Sharath explains why Stylumia became a part of the Intel AI Builders programs, which provided the support that allowed the company to transfer the majority of their models off more expensive and costly GPUs to more scalable Intel CPU architecture with the OpenVINO framework. 

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Using AI to Forecast Fashion in India - CitC Episode 245

SHI’s Tim Henning joins host Jake Smith to talk about how IT leaders were able quickly deploy virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) via public cloud offerings to preserve business continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tim explains why Stratascale introduced the Intel Select Solution for VDI to address enterprise needs for scalability and security and goes into detail about the testing and collaboration between both companies.

For more information, visit: https://shi.com/intel 
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Preserving Business Continuity During a Pandemic - CitC Episode 248

Nakul Arora from EdgeVerve (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Infosys Ltd.) joins host Jake Smith to talk about the role AI is playing in transforming the way enterprises unlock business insights from their corpus of documents. Nakul discusses the critical role that a symphony between the software and hardware layers plays in order to deliver an improved customer experience, reduced TCO and a higher ROI for the buyers. Nakul talks about the benefits of the Intel AI Builders program and how the two companies worked together to optimally tune EdgeVerve’s Nia DocAI, a document extraction, processing and comprehension solution, for the Intel AI-stack.

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Nia DocAI Unlocks Business Value by Optimizing Document Processing Pipelines - CitC Episode 251

Taboola’s Ariel Pisetzky joins host Jake Smith to talk about using artificial intelligence (AI) for personalized content recommendations at massive scale, reaching up to 4 billion web pages a day. Ariel discusses why Taboola runs their services on their own on-prem infrastructure of over 10,000 servers with Intel processors, many of which are dedicated to inferencing workloads. Ariel also goes into detail about some of the performance optimizations the company has found gen-over-gen with increased memory access. Jake and Ariel close the episode by talking about the open source community and how to respond to a crisis, like a fire breaking out inside your data center. 

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Behind the Massive Scale Required for Content Recommendation - CitC Episode 252

Paul Magdalena, Didier Marcon, and Pascale Martinez from Atos along with Goutam Debnath from Numascale join host Jake Smith to talk about their recently published white paper “Rise of Volumetric Data and Scale-Up Enterprise Computing.” The guests and Jake discuss the rise of volumetric data and the benefit of in-memory computing with scaled-up servers to meet current business trends.

Read the white paper at: https://atos.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/White_paper_Atos_Numascale_Intel.pdf

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The Rise of Volumetric Data - CitC Episode 254

Mateus Dalponte from Axur joins host Jake Smith to talk about the importance of digital risk protection and how to mitigate the evolving world of digital fraud. Mateus discusses how Axur’s Fake Social Removal and Digital Risk Protection platforms can help protect a company’s reputation by constantly adapting to today’s evolving fraud landscape. He also illustrates how the work Axur has done with Intel utilizing OpenVINO with ONNX for OCR model creation enabled Axur to achieve GPU level performance on Intel processors. Mateus wraps the episode talking about how Axur will continue to analyze and adapt to the future of fraud using AI to combat it.
For more information, visit: https://axur.com/en/ 
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AI Digital Fraud Protection - CitC Episode 271

Nelson Lee, Head of Partnerships at Synergies joins host Jake Smith to discuss the importance of data science and AI in the manufacturing industry. Nelson talks about how Synergies works to close the gap for manufacturing organizations using outdated data and limited data science expertise in their decision-making processes. He highlights how their platform, JarviX, accomplishes this by visualizing a company’s data, analyzing it, and generating insight triggered by simple queries. Nelson also talks about the deep collaboration between Synergies and Intel resulting in incredible performance improvements for their platform. Jake and Nelson wrap the episode discussing the future of AI and how it will continue to be a differentiator for businesses moving forward.   
For more information, visit: https://synergies.ai/index.html
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Future of AnalyticsOps in Manufacturing - CitC Episode 272

Jayachandran Ramachandran, Senior Vice President of AI Labs at Course 5 Intelligence, joins host Jake Smith to discuss the Course5 Intelligence Discovery AI augmented analytics platform. Jay highlights how Discovery allows enterprises to achieve real-time access to conversational insights and cognitive answers from their data. He talks about how Discovery uses composable and composite AI to enable enterprises to gain insights and receive AI-generated answers in seconds. Jay and Jake also discuss how Intel optimizations are driving even faster inference and higher throughput on their platform improving customer experience and time to insights for Course5’s enterprise customers. Jay especially highlights how Course5 utilized Cnvrg.io to help automate and accelerate their testing and ML model creation. Jake and Jay also dive into the importance of natural language understanding (NLU) and illustrate how it enables the Discovery platform to derive causal analysis when helping enterprise customers understand their data. 
For more information, visit: https://www.course5i.com/course5-discovery/ 
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Discovering AI Augmented Intelligence Platforms - CitC Episode 274

Vik Anantha, Chief Product and Strategic Marketing Officer at Caresyntax joins host Jake Smith to discuss how Caresyntax’s data-driven surgery platform is helping make surgeries smarter and safer. Through applying AI and analytics automation, he describes how the Caresyntax platform enables clinicians to focus only on necessary variations for a surgery and in turn optimizes the clinical, operational, and financial outcomes. Vik talks about how the Caresyntax platform can reduce unwarranted surgical variation from pre-operation to post-operation by assisting surgeons and interventionalists to make better decisions in real time utilizing important data captured during surgery. He also points out that the platform is optimized for the Intel architecture to bring performance and flexibility to their customers. Lastly, Jake and Vik talk about what the future holds for AI and how Caresyntax in collaboration with Intel is accelerating AI’s ability to solve real business problems in healthcare. 
For more information, visit: https://caresyntax.com/ 
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Data-driven surgery with Caresyntax - CitC Episode 279

Novan Parmonangan Simanjuntak, Head of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Strategy at GLAIR joins host Jake Smith to discuss how GLAIR worked with Intel to optimize deep learning and inference for their computer vision solution. Novan talks about how the GLAIR crowd detection system is optimized for the Intel OpenVINO toolkit and ONNX Runtime enabling GLAIR to achieve a significant improvement in throughput. He also highlights how their solution runs on CPUs, helping their clients avoid using costly GPUs for their computer vision workloads. Novan discusses how this performance optimization can also be applied to many other different workloads to benefit customer of all kinds.   Lastly, he and Jake talk about how AI models in the future will be able to solve any type of problem. Novan feels that as AI is democratized, it will become more ubiquitous throughout our lives and continue to drive transformation throughout the world. 

For more information, visit: https://glair.ai/ 
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Optimizing Computer Vision with GLAIR - CitC Episode 280

Vamshi Ambati, Founder & CEO at Predera, joins host Jake Smith to discuss how Predera is working to democratize AI by making it truly accessible to everyone with companies able to manage AI and not just build it. He highlights how Predera’s AIQ platform enables enterprises to drastically cut down the challenges they face today in building, deploying and managing machine learning models. The platform makes it very simple and easy to take models into production and then manage them into the future. Vamshi talks about how Predera’s collaborated with Intel to optimize their workloads for Intel oneAPI AI Analytics Toolkits resulting in improvements in both training and inference. This has also enabled Predera and their customers to leverage CPUs for most workloads reducing the need to use expensive GPUs. Lastly, Jake and Vamshi discuss how algorithmic advancements and compute advancements will drive the future of machine learning allowing AI to be impactful in many new aspects of our lives.     

For more information, visit: https://predera.com/
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Predera Democratizing AI Model Production - CitC Episode 282

Ankit Narayan Singh, Co-Founder & CTO at ParallelDots, joins host Jake Smith to discuss how artificial intelligence and image recognition are transforming the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) and retail industry operations in brick-and-mortar stores. He describes how it's a challenge for retailers to identify and replenish out-of-stock products on shelves quickly and efficiently. Ankit highlights how ParallelDots’ ShelfWatch platform analyzes photos captured in stores and uses computer vision models to send real time alerts to retailers allowing them to rapidly analyze and refill any shortages on their shelves. Ankit also illustrates how ParallelDots collaborated closely with Intel leveraging Intel’s ecosystem program to optimize their DL models for OpenVINO. This collaboration helped significantly increase their inference throughput performance and also enabled ParallellDots to optimize some of their models to run on CPUs avoiding the need to run on more expensive GPUs. Lastly, Jake and Ankit talk about the digitization of brick-and-mortar stores and how that process is building the stores of the future. Computer Vision and artificial intelligence are exposing more data and greater capabilities for retailers to provide better experiences to their customers while increasing efficiencies.

For more information, visit: https://www.paralleldots.com/
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Generating Real-Time Shelf Insights with ParallelDots Computer Vision Platform - CitC Episode 284

Mouli Narayanan, Founder and CEO at Zeblok, join Jake Smith to discuss Zeblok’s Ai-MicroCloud platform and how it streamlines AI delivery by providing a single, cohesive, turnkey, cloud-native AI environment. Mouli shares Zeblok’s mission and describes how the Ai-MicroCloud enables enterprises to quickly deliver AI at the edge and integrate AI solutions into mission-critical processes, faster and with lower costs. He expresses how AI deployments at the edge are becoming a main point of data origination and consumption for the enterprise today. Discussing how Zeblok is helping drive this shift and assisting enterprises with needed ISV (independent software vendor) integration to drive their edge AI deployments. Mouli also covers how collaborating with the Intel Disruptor Program has enabled Zeblok to optimize their platform for Intel technologies like OpenVINO and bring greater value to their customers. Lastly, Jake and Mouli discuss the future of AI and how artificial intelligence will drive incredible improvements in productivity in the enterprise.
For more information, visit: https://www.zeblok.com/ 
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Cloud Native AI Development with Zeblok - CitC Episode 285

Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, VP of Technology Ecosystem at SingleStore, joins host Jake Smith in a conversation about how SingleStore's database technology (SingleStoreDB) unifies transactions and analytics to power real-time business decision-making. Karl-Heinz talks about modern business applications where companies take advantage of SingleStoreDB to bring real-time analytics and data feeds together, driving business impacts. Furthermore, Karl-Heinz shares his view of the future database structure moving towards an architecture that consolidates transactions and analytics to accelerate real-time business insights.

For more information, visit: https://www.singlestore.com/
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How SingleStore Powers Real-Time Analytics – CitC Episode 287

Joining Jake on the podcast today is Kasia Borowska, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Brainpool AI. The duo discuss the most popular applications of AI in business, how they benefit, and the best ways to start implementing solutions.

Brainpool AI is an Artificial Intelligence services company that connects a global network of over 600 AI and Machine Learning experts with corporate partners. Intelligent automation helps their clients grow efficiently, reducing operational costs and overhead. The resultant higher quality products and services greatly benefit their customers’ clients.

Libraries like Intel OpenVino help leverage existing models in creating solutions for business partners. Borowska finds most customers would like to avoid “reinventing the wheel” when it comes to onboarding new AI solutions.

Check out their website for more information at brainpool.ai . Their LinkedIn also offers updates and industry trends.

Going Deep with Brainpool AI and Intel OpenVINO - CitC Episode 288

Davit Buniatyan, Activeloop CEO, joins host Jake Smith on the latest episode of Conversations in the Cloud to discuss optimizing data lakes for creating deep learning-based products. Deep Lake allows storing complex data in AI-native format and streaming it over the network to Tensor Query Language, in-browser visualization engine, and deep learning frameworks without sacrificing GPU utilization. A member of the Intel Disruptor program, Activeloop partners with Intel to deliver Deep Lake on Intel® Xeon Scalable Processors and make Deep Lake more performant.
 
Learn more about Deep Lake at activeloop.ai  

Research Links: 
Deep Lake Whitepaper: https://www.deeplake.ai/whitepaper
Deep Lake Academic Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.10785.pdf 
Deep Lake GitHub Repository: https://github.com/activeloopai/deeplake
Deep Lake Datasets: https://datasets.activeloop.ai/docs/ml/datasets/

Building a Data Lake for Deep Learning with Activeloop - Episode 289

Dr. Yichuan Zhang, CEO of Boltzbit, joins host Jake Smith to discuss what is generative AI, why it matters to developers, and how the Boltzbit Generative AutoML platform helps tackle enterprise AI challenges. Dr. Yichuan started by sharing his journey of transitioning from academia to industry and entrepreneurship while developing a strong passion for solving complex challenges with generative AI. Dr. Yichuan explained why the next phase of AI is generative in terms of bigger and more dynamic output capacity, which makes AI development easier and faster. Dr. Yichuan praised the partnership with Intel where software optimization on CPU makes AI accessible on a broader range of devices, especially in public cloud infrastructure. While recognizing AI still has a long way to go, Dr. Yichuan sees generative AI to play an important role in unleashing AI capabilities to catch up with human intelligence at some levels.

For more information, visit: https://boltzbit.com/ 
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Boltzbit Generative AI Tackles Enterprise AI Challenges - Episode 290

On today’s episode of Conversations in the Cloud Alex Liu, Chief Technology Officer of BasicAI stops by to talk about the company’s efforts at evolving the training data platform. Xtreme1 is the world's first open-source platform for multisensory training data and can rapidly accelerate the processing and management of training data. 

AI engineers spend a preponderance of their time preparing the training data. Through advanced AI-powered annotation tools, Xtreme1 improves modeling. Capable of handling various time-sensitive online/offline tasks, distributed data analysis computation, model training, evaluation, and inference, Xtreme1 is fully compatible with CPU-only runtime environments. In particular, the model inference has been optimized for Intel Xeon CPU to provide higher throughput. Inference throughput on Intel Xeon 8380 is vastly improved with the help of Intel extension for PyTorch and OpenVINO toolkit.

For more information go to www.basic.ai and www.xtreme1.io

BasicAI Leads Multisensory Training Data Effort with Xtreme1 - Episode 291

Deepak MK, Vice President of Data Science at ExamRoom.AI sits in with Jake to discuss the company’s primary mission: to provide a highly secure, unified assessment system and fair environment to the candidates who take online remote proctored exams.

ExamRoom.AI’s research and advancements in AI technology have unleashed leap-forward technological accomplishments, leading to efforts toward making robust online testing a reality. Universities and organizations alike face difficulties in ensuring integrity and security in testing that ExamRoom.AI can address.

Using 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon Scalable Processors and OpenVINO helped ExamRoom.AI reduce the occurrence of memory issues and build better machine learning models through its scalability and latency reduction, greatly reducing model training time. Intel’s Ice Lake processor speeds up and enhances their systems, helping avoid dreaded Out Of Memory (OOM) errors.

Check out their website for more information at https://examroom.ai/

Computer Vision and NLP in Practice with ExamRoom.AI - Episode 292

Learn why our customers are moving to immersion cooling, and how it and sustainability are changing data centers in this conversation with Intel Fellows Mohan Kumar, Nishi Ahuja and Senior PE Sandeep Ahuja and host Jake Smith.

For more information, visit: Data Center Sustainability- Intel and Submer Partner on Immersion Cooling | Intel Business - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBVO_YQBYjc  

and Intel® Data Center Manager | Sustainability: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/software/sustainability.html?wapkw=sustainability

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Next Generation Data Center: The Future of Sustainability and the Cloud - CitC Episode 293

The SafeHouse Initiative was organized to provide education and awareness to businesses who are inundated with technical concepts, jargon and terms around the concepts of Business Continuity and Cyber Security. We understand that customers want to focus on their business rather than becoming Cyber Security or Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity technology experts.

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Safehouse Initiative Podcast - CitC Episode 294

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Lee Howard, CTO of Global Industry Solutions and Alliances with NetApp, joins Conversations in the Cloud this week to discuss a shift in data management and the criticality of businesses leveraging their available data for successful decision making regardless of the platform where it resides.  NetApp’s vision is that the benefits customers have come to expect in a traditional on-prem architecture are protected as they implement a Cloud environment.  Howard discusses the goals that drive their data management strategy – create an agile environment that takes into consideration issues of data sovereignty and data resilience, while guaranteeing business continuity.  Visit cloud.netapp.com for use cases and resources, netapp.io for deep dive technical materials, and follow Howard on Twitter @KeepHoweird.

Understand the Power of Data Through Digital Transformation with NetApp -  Intel CitC Episode 135

Jim Sangster, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Supermicro, joins Intel’s Conversations in the Cloud to talk about their broad product line of servers and storage platforms and how their offering of Intel Select Solutions simplifies the process of implementing and deploying solutions that are workload optimized for their customers.

Supermicro always strives to be first to market with new technologies. Jim talks about how Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory will be a game changer--how it provides significantly more memory capabilities, it’s persistent and less expensive than DRAM. 

Jim covers two new Intel Select Solutions they will be offering soon: VMware vSAN and SAP HANA—both built on Intel 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. He also touches on their AI product line—what’s available and the infinite possibilities using AI.

For more information about Supermicro, their extensive product line and the Intel Select Solutions they offer, go to: www.supermicro.com
To learn more about Intel Select Solutions, go to: intel.com/selectsolutions

Supermicro Develops Workload Optimized Solutions with Intel--CitC Episode 175

Vishal Rai, cofounder and CEO of Embold, joins host Jake Smith to talk about how AI software is changing the planet and why static code analysis is more important than ever before. The two talk about how quickly software development is evolving and what that means for the wider industry. Vishal also goes into detail about the company’s “Embold score,” a multi-dimensional analysis which utilizes machine learning to find specific code components that will have the biggest impact and need to be solved first, and outlines the areas where working with Intel helped the company optimize their training performance.

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Using AI to Analyze and Improve Code – CitC Episode 220

Intel® Conversations in the Cloud is a podcast with IT leaders who are driving the future of a software-defined infrastructure based data center. Featuring members of the Intel® Builders programs, Intel experts, and industry analysts, this recurring podcast series provides information on delivering, deploying, and managing cloud computing, technology, and services in the data center and enterprise.

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