Baidu unveils open source edge computing platform and AI boards

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venturebeat.com, Jan. 09, 2019 – 

Baidu's had a busy week. Fresh off of yesterday's unveiling of Apollo 3.5, the latest generation of its self-driving platform, the Beijing company announced OpenEdge, an open source computing platform that enables developers to build edge applications "with more flexibility." It also announced two new AI hardware development platforms: the BIE-AI-Box, a kit for in-car video analysis designed in partnership with Intel, and the BIE-AI-Board, a chipboard codeveloped with NXP that's optimized for object classification.

"The explosive growth of IoT devices and rapid adoption of AI is fueling great demand for edge computing," Watson Yin, vice president and general manager of Baidu Cloud, said. "Edge computing is a critical component of Baidu's ABC (AI, Big Data and Cloud Computing) strategy."

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