Intel Launches Geti OpenVINO-Optimized Computer Vision Platform, Early-Access Developer Cloud
Designed to reduce the barrier to entry in AI, Geti outputs fully-optimized ready-to-deploy OpenVINO models.
Intel has announced a new computer vision platform, dubbed Geti, designed specifically for OpenVINO — along with new CPUs, GPUs, and a cloud-powered early-access program for developers dubbed, unsurprisingly, the Intel Developer Cloud.
“In the next decade, we will see the continued digitization of everything. Five foundational technology superpowers — compute, connectivity, infrastructure, AI and sensing — will profoundly shape how we experience the world," Intel;s chief executive Pat Gelsinger claimed during the company's Innovation 2022 event this week. "Developers, both software and hardware focused, will build this future. They are the true magicians that advance what’s possible. Fostering this open ecosystem is at the center of our transformation and the developer community is essential to our success."
Aside from 13th-generation Intel Core processors, upgraded graphics processors, and the company's first dedicated graphics processor specifically targeting gamers, Intel announced a new computer vision platform: Geti. Previously developed under the codename Sonoma Creek, Geti targets collaborative development of vision-focused artificial intelligence (AI) models.
Designed to reduce the cost, in both money and time, required to develop effective AI models, Geti provides a single unified interface for data upload and annotation, model training, and retraining. It's also optimized specifically for OpenVINO, the Open Visual Inference and Neural-network Optimization toolkit — which means full support for Intel's CPU, GPU, and Movidius Vision Processing Unit (VPU) families and the promise that models created in Geti will be output fully-optimized and ready for deployment on Intel hardware platforms.
The launch of Geti comes just over a year after Intel announced it was to wind down its RealSense computer vision hardware division and "focus on advancing innovative technologies that better support our core businesses" — with Geti apparently doing exactly that.
Alongside Geti, Intel launched a limited beta of the Intel Developer Cloud — a program which will allow selected developers and partners access Intel's future technologies anything from a few months to a full year ahead of general availability. At launch, the Developer Cloud includes access to fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable and Intel Xeon processors with High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM), Intel Xeon D chips, the Habana Gaudi 2 family of deep-learning accelerators, and both Intel Data Center GPU Flex and its Ponte Vecchio accelerators.
More information on Geti is available on Intel's dedicated website, while those interested in taking part in the Developer Cloud beta can submit an application on the company's developer portal.