Intel joins hands with Baidu to deepen cooperation in an all-round way to build an intelligent ecosystem

July 29, 2021, Beijing – Intel Corporation today attended the Intelligent Economy Summit Forum and Baidu Cloud Intelligence Summit 2021 and shared a series of latest cooperation progress with Baidu in artificial intelligence, cloud computing, intelligent edge, etc. In terms of intelligent technology, Baidu has built a full-featured AI development platform, Baidu Machine Learning (BML), based on the third-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, providing enterprises with one-stop AI development services; at the same time, Baidu Flying Paddle 2.0 also By integrating Intel oneAPI, the work efficiency of users’ deep learning applications can be effectively improved. In addition, the two parties not only jointly build cloud-edge collaboration solutions to help build smart cities and digital China, but also carry out comprehensive ecological cooperation to help industrial intelligent upgrades.

In the speech, Yi Hongwei, general manager of Intel Asia artificial intelligence sales technology, said: “In the face of the evolving data center needs, Intel not only adds to the cloud strategy, launches the infrastructure processor (IPU), and creates a new intelligent architecture; , and also assists cloud computing with AI innovation technology to provide a comprehensive strategy covering artificial intelligence hardware, software and ecosystems to meet the unique needs of every developer, data scientist, and customer from cloud to intelligent edge to device. In this way, Intel will work with Baidu to deepen cooperation in all aspects from product technology, solutions, industry and ecology, to help intelligent upgrades and enable industrial development.”

Over the years, Intel and Baidu have built an in-depth cooperation model covering product technology, industry solutions, and industrial ecology. Taking technological innovation as the cornerstone of cooperation, the two parties continue to explore new applications and breakthroughs, and embrace the new era of diverse computing. Based on 3rd Gen Intel? Xeon? Scalable processor, Baidu built a full-featured AI development platform BML. Thanks to 3rd Gen Intel? Xeon? The powerful end-to-end computing power of scalable processors and by Intel? The AI ​​acceleration capability brought by deep learning acceleration technology, etc., the platform can not only provide users with easier-to-use, smoother, and more flexible AI hardware infrastructure support, but also further enhance the development experience of platform users, thereby providing AI transformation for enterprises. Powerful help. Also, with 3rd Gen Intel? Xeon? Scalable processors with built-in AI acceleration and Intel? Baidu Fei Pao 2.0, which is deeply integrated with the oneAPI toolkit, significantly improves the inference speed of various deep learning models, effectively improves the work efficiency of users’ deep learning applications, and reduces costs and increases efficiency for enterprises.

At the same time, Intel and Baidu rely on their innovation and accumulation in the field of edge computing to gradually build the nervous system of smart cities. As the world’s leading open edge computing framework, EdgeX Foundry aims to build a general open framework for IoT edge computing to enable a plug-and-play component ecosystem. Among them, as the initiator and one of the important participants of the EdgeX Foundry Community China Project, Intel IoT Division has been actively supporting the development of EdgeX by contributing code and building the EdgeX ecosystem. The cloud-edge-device collaboration solution built by Intel-based EdgeX and Baidu Baetyl is simple and easy to integrate, has a low threshold for use, and is highly compatible with different devices. It can provide users with a flexible and intelligent device management platform. At this stage, Huibo Yuntong has completed the end-to-end solution verification. In the future, it will rely on Intel’s strong ecological advantages to provide customers in industries such as industrial, retail, energy, medical and life sciences with solutions that better meet their needs and share intelligence. New opportunities at the edge in the retail industry.

Looking forward to the AI-native cloud era, Intel will also cooperate with Baidu in the IPU field to provide flexible and high-performance heterogeneous computing power for AI scenarios at the computing power level; jointly explore industry application solutions to help enterprises simplify the AI ​​application architecture , agile development, empowering the intelligent industry; comprehensively deepen cooperation in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, intelligent edge and other fields to build an intelligent ecosystem.