Intel Launches 30 More Pre-Trained AI "Reference Kits," Including Transcription, Chat, and More
Available under the permissive BSD 3-Clause license, these 34 "reference kits" aim to kick-start solutions for real-world problems.
Intel has announced that its pre-trained open source artificial intelligence (AI) reference kit releases now number more than 30, including new models for disease prediction, medical imaging diagnostics, traffic camera object detection, and credit card fraud detection.
"Intel AI reference kits give millions of developers and data scientists an easy, performant and cost-effective way to build and scale their AI applications in health and life sciences, financial services, manufacturing, retail and many other domains," claims Intel's Wei Li, PhD, of the releases. "Intel is committed to enabling an AI everywhere future through not just our portfolio of AI-accelerated processors and systems but also our contributions to an open AI software ecosystem."
Built on top of the open oneAPI programming model the new reference kits come after Intel and Accenture launched their first open source pre-trained AI reference kits in July last year, at the time offering just four each focusing on a different real-world scenario: utility asset health monitoring; visual quality control for the pharmaceutical industry; a custom-facing chatbot built around BERT and PyTorch; and intelligent document indexing.
Those four have now been joined by 30 more, Intel has announced, across a range of disciplines. There are reference kits for the financial industry offering credit card fraud detection and the prediction of loan default risk, kits for the medical industry for diagnostics and disease prediction, kits for retailers for product recommendation and purchase prediction, and more general-purpose kits for AI-driven transcription and voice data generation.
"Collaborating with Intel to build AI reference kits for the open source community has led to more productive AI workloads for our clients," says Accenture's John Giubileo of the direct benefit the company has seen from its partnership with Intel. "The kits, built on oneAPI, are designed to offer developers a portable and efficient solution for AI projects, which reduces project complexity and the time to deployment across industries."
The new kits are all available to download now on GitHub, under the permissive BSD 3-Clause license.