Horizon AIOT developer Salon Shanghai Station successfully concluded
At present, intelligent devices enter a period of rapid popularity. Artificial intelligence, like water, electricity and coal, has become the foundation of the digital economy era. However, how enterprises have the ability to quickly land AI is still a common challenge faced by industry participants.
On July 9th, Horizon Developer Salon · Shanghai Station of 2021, hosted by Horizon and undertaken by SegmentFault, was successfully held. A number of product and technical experts from Horizon and its partners Baidu, Lilda and other companies talked about artificial intelligence with nearly 100 developers on the scene, and shared wonderful content such as AI hardware and software development practice, AI-assisted industrial upgrading and transformation, and Horizon developer cases. In addition, Horizon also unveiled its new Developer Acceleration Camp and Developer Support Program at the Salon.
Combining hard and soft, Horizon makes AI development easy
Wang Cong, general manager of Horizon AIOT product line, introduced Horizon’s business practice and ecological exploration based on AI chip to the participating developers. In terms of business landing, thanks to the technical concept of combining hardware and software, Horizon’s solution can form a business closed loop quickly. In terms of ecological construction, Horizon is continuously providing customers with comprehensive and open enabling support based on the basic technology platform composed of chips, algorithms and development platforms, accelerating the application of AI in all walks of life, and working together to build a wider range of intelligent “core” ecology.
How to maximize the performance of AI chips to achieve efficient implementation of AI products? Chen Ze, the person in charge of Horizon Skywork Development Platform, introduced developer tools such as tool chain, AI application development middleware, model warehouse, customer-built closed-loop, etc., and explained Horizon’s iterative upgrade planning for the development platform from the perspective of developers. According to Chen, Horizon’s algorithm developers often discuss with customers to predict the computing power, algorithms and bandwidth needed for future applications in order to meet different demands for solutions in specific scenarios.
Fei Bin, the head of AIOT product line research and development of Horizon, took the current difficulty in landing AI as the breakthrough point, and shared how Horizon helped customers explore and realize AI perception ability with the combination of hard and soft capabilities. Starting from the underlying technical concepts of Horizon, Fei Bin explained in simple terms how Horizon integrated AI computing features into the technical architecture, so that the AI chip would always maintain a higher efficient utilization rate along with the evolution trend of algorithms, thus enabling partners and customers to benefit from the advantages brought by algorithm innovation.
Ecological win-win, discusses the practice of AI product development
In the partner sharing session, Hu Tao, general manager of Lilda Embedded Department, introduced to us Lilda’s smart mine, smart factory and other high-performance and cost-effective solutions based on Horizon chip and development platform. When talking about “why you choose Horizon”, Hu Tao said that Horizon not only gives customers computing power and the software application ecology based on chip, but also gives customers Know-How of AI algorithm, which brings real ability improvement for customers. The algorithmic friendliness of the Horizon chip products, an open and easy-to-use development platform, and an efficient customer service attitude also form a key foundation for our continued collaboration. In addition, Hu Tao also gave recognition to the quality of Horizon products.
Ying Sheng, a senior engineer from Baidu Paddle2OnNX, shared the high-level API of Paddle2OnNX and “Tiangong KaiWu”. The product can quickly and effectively build deep learning models with several times the efficiency. Among them, the Horizon Engineering Developer Development Board can be quickly deployed for embedded development, and the speed and accuracy can be effectively guaranteed. The deep cooperation between the two parties has further expanded the algorithmic ecology of Horizon Chip, while also enabling Baidu’s users to conduct diversified AI deployments.
Creating the Core for the Future, Horizon Developer Accelerated Camp and Support Program is here
At the end of the salon, Yinjia Gao, Head of AIOT Developer Ecology, introduced the accelerated preparation schedule of Horizon Developers and the “Sky Bow” developer support plan.
Ground line developer acceleration camp is committed to providing AI developers with innovation acceleration services. By providing multi-aspect ecological empowerment including hardware, development platform, training courses, marketing resources, etc., it helps developers to create fast landing applications and accelerate the arrival of the era of inclusive AI. With the theme of “Evolution · More” AI “, the 2021 Horizon Developer Acceleration Camp encourages developers to practice the concept of technology for good, and accelerates the implementation of AI in various scenes based on the Horizon AI development suite, so as to make people’s lives safer and better.
The topic of this accelerated camp is “to develop a product based on Horizon AI product technology to help public welfare development and make life better”. Developers can create a product based on their own interests, hobbies, technical expertise and from the perspective of public welfare. In Accelerate Camp, Horizon will accelerate the deployment of developer AI products through full technical empowerment and in-depth guidance to developers. At present, the registration of accelerated camp has been opened.
In addition, in order to encourage and support a wider range of developers to carry out product development practices, to enable industrial upgrading with AI, and to build a smart “core” ecology, Horizon launched AIOT developer support plan — “Sky Bow Plan”, to help developers accelerate the implementation of AI products and achieve win-win business. Gao Yinjia said that the “Sky Bow Project” will be officially launched in the Horizon developer community and on the Sina website in the near future.
So far, the first Horizon Developer Salon of 2021 has come to an end. In the future, Horizon Developer Salon will go to all parts of the country, bringing abundant technology sharing to developers in more cities, and helping enterprises from all walks of life keep innovating in the wave of intelligent reform and transformation, so as to jointly create a prosperous AI “core” ecology.
The realization of Pratt & Whitney AI not only depends on the active participation of industry chain enterprises, but also requires numerous developers to jointly shape a rich and diversified application ecology. Under the guidance of the brand strategy of AI on Horizon and Journey Together, Horizon will continue to polish the basic technology platform composed of “chip + algorithm + tool chain”, and provide partners with the underlying technical capabilities and more efficient development services. Let the “water, electricity and coal” of the digital economy fully flow, so that everyone can enjoy a safer and better life.