Episodes
Wednesday Aug 07, 2024
Intel Liftoff - AI, Startups and Innovating the Future
Wednesday Aug 07, 2024
Wednesday Aug 07, 2024
Ralph De Wargny, Director of the Intel Liftoff for Startups joins Tony to discusshow this program is enabling startups around the world to bring innovation to lifethrough engineering support, go to market opportunities and business support.
They also talk about previous conferences where Intel Liftoff members have been highlighted for their work.
Guest:
Ralph De Wargny - Direct of Intel Liftoff for Startups
Ralph De Wargny |
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Resources:
Intel® Liftoff for Startups
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/liftoff.html
Intel® Tiber™ Developer Cloud
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/devcloud/services.html
Christoph Schuhmann TED talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ-NbuRj5OU
Thursday Jul 11, 2024
Thursday Jul 11, 2024
Tony is joined by Nathan Odle to talk about how he takes consumer hardware and puts together systems to do fun AI tasks. He has built systems using 7x NVIDIA 4090 and 7x Intel Arc A770. Come here about his experience building the systems and using the software to solve real problems and squeeze maximum performance out of GPUs you can buy yourself.
Guest:
Nathan Odle is an engineer, rally racer, and AI enthusiast who enjoys combining cutting-edge technology with practical applications. In the pursuit of backprop, Nathan recently built a custom AI server using seven Intel Arc A770 graphics cards, showcasing how consumer hardware can be used for advanced AI tasks. You can learn more about how to build your own on his website: http://mov-axbx.com
Nathan Odle |
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Resources:
Nathan's X
Intel® Arc™ A770 GPUhttps://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/discrete-gpus/arc.html
Intel Extension for PyTorch
Thursday Jun 27, 2024
Seekr - Building and Enabling Trustworthy AI for Businesses
Thursday Jun 27, 2024
Thursday Jun 27, 2024
Quality of content and the web can be extremely challenging. Is the quality and civility of the content appropriate? Seekr is using AI to determine that for you as a business. They also are able to extend their learnings to help businesses build better LLMs for their own custom usages.
Stefanos Poulis, Chief of AI Research and Development, joins us to discuss how to build LLMs that measure civility or any other characteristic of a piece of content. He also talks about how they are exposing their capabilities to allow other businesses to do the same based on their own criteria
Stefanos Poulis |
Rahul Nair |
Learn More:
Seekr
Intel® Liftoff for Startups
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/liftoff.htm
Intel® Tiber™ Developer Cloud
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/devcloud/services.html
Intel® Gaudi® Al Accelerators
Thursday Jun 13, 2024
Cheap and Available AI - How Nodeshift Makes AI Compute Accessible
Thursday Jun 13, 2024
Thursday Jun 13, 2024
As AI applications become more prevalent, one of the biggest challenges is efficiently and cost effectively deploying your AI solution. For some it is as simple as following whatever pricing model a backend API SaaS from Google or OpenAI charges. But for others who are looking to deploy their own solutions, this can be challenging. By leveraging inefficiencies in the cloud compute market, NodeShift is making compute resources accessible to a wider range of businesses.
Guest:
Mihai Mărcuță is an Oxford University data science alumni with a professional background from Microsoft (Azure), Twitter (X), Epic Games (Fortnite) and Cisco. He co-founded NodeShift two years ago with Andrey Surkov.
Mihai Mărcuță |
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Resources:
Nodeshift
Intel Tiber Developer Cloud
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/devcloud/services.html
Intel Tiber Developer Cloud Blog
Intel Ignite
Intel Liftoff for Startups
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/liftoff.html
Thursday May 30, 2024
Ready for Exascale - Bringing Science Into the Future
Thursday May 30, 2024
Thursday May 30, 2024
Scott Parker joins Tony to discuss the progress getting applications running on Aurora Supercomputer nodes. From 2022 where the project started to today, significant progress has been made using a variety of programming models. Kokkos, OpenMP and oneAPI have enabled migration of scientific and AI applications to run on the Intel CPUs and GPUs Aurora is built on.
Guest:
Scott Parker |
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Resources:
Aurora Super Computer - https://www.alcf.anl.gov/aurora
Intel Data Center Max GPU - https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/discrete-gpus/data-center-gpu/max-series.html
Intel Xeon Processors - https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/processors/xeon.html
Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit - https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/base-toolkit.html
Tuesday May 21, 2024
Tuesday May 21, 2024
Eduardo joins Tony to talk about the latest news from OpenAI with GPT-4o and Google I/O with Gemini. They also talk about who needs a large context windows and do developers benefit from these context windows getting larger. Finally they discuss whether a larger context window can address the same issues as RAG or other solutions.
Guest:
Eduardo Alvarez - AI Solutions Engineer @ Intel
Eduardo Alvarez |
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Links:
OpenAI
Google I/O
Eduardo's RAG E-Book
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7188539670400565249/
Intel on AI Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/intel-on-ai
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Friday Apr 26, 2024
Part 2: Bringing AI Innovation to Africa - African Startups & Hackathons
Friday Apr 26, 2024
Friday Apr 26, 2024
EpochZero and Bilic join Tony to discuss their experience last year in the Intel Liftoff Hackathon for African AI Startups. They talk about how to get the most out of a hackathon as well as the benefits they got from participating in this particular hackathon.
Intel supports startups through a variety of program. Hear about how Intel Liftoff Hackathon for AI Startups is supporting innovation on the African Continent. Also learn about a variety of programs, initiatives and collations driving deep tech in Africa.
Mayowa Abejirin |
Dr. Kenneth Aguh |
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Saminu Salisu |
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Resources:
EpochZero
Bilic
Intel® Liftoff Hackathon for African AI Startups
https://airtable.com/apphzz2omOZhalJDw/pagjhWl13D0jE2hnU/form
ModusAfrica
Intel® Tiber™ Developer Cloud
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
Bringing AI Innovation to Africa
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
Dr. Bienvenu Soglo joins Tony to discuss the challenges of deep tech AI start up in Africa, and how the second annual Intel Liftoff Hackathon for AI Startups is helping to bridge some of those gaps. They also discuss supporting the African continent to foster innovation.
Intel supports startups through a variety of program. Hear about how IntelLiftoff Hackathon for AI Startups is supporting innovation on the African Continent. Also learn about a variety of programs, initiatives and collations driving deep tech in Africa.
Dr Bienvenu Soglo |
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Resources:
Intel® Liftoff Hackathon for African AI Startups
https://airtable.com/apphzz2omOZhalJDw/pagjhWl13D0jE2hnU/form
ModusAfrica
Um6P Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
Prosper Africa
iZET Hub
Open Startup
https://www.linkedin.com/company/open-startup-international/
FAST Accelerator
https://www.fastaccelerator.com
Innov8 Hub
N50 Project
Code Together
Code Together is an interview series that explores challenges at the forefront of technology and cross-architecture development. We’ll talk with those at Intel and across the industry who are forging a path on this often treacherous journey through an increasingly diverse, data-centric world. Join the conversation at oneapi.io.
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