On June 25, The Baidu Brain Open Day was officially held in Xi ‘an with the theme of “AI Enabling Software and Hardware Product Innovation”. Baidu product architects shared the practical path to help software and hardware solution enterprises to realize AI model development and application deployment at lower cost and higher efficiency. Through EasyDL Zero-threshold AI development platform and EdgeBoard edge end-to-end soft and hard integrated AI solution, And baidu AI market, which connects with demanders and service providers of AI industry chain, helps enterprises to upgrade intelligentization and expand market opportunities.
Baidu Brain is the culmination of Baidu AI’s years of technical accumulation and industrial practice, enabling all walks of life to achieve intelligent upgrading through Baidu intelligent cloud. Baidu Brain Open Day has been held since 2019 and has become a platform for Baidu to communicate closely with AI developers and partners. In 2021, Baidu Brain Open Day will launch a nationwide lecture tour. Each tour will go deep into regional cities, focusing on the characteristics and intelligent needs of local industries, and enabling local enterprises to accelerate the intelligent process by combining baidu’s cutting-edge AI technology and industry scenarios.
EasyDL full-process customized AI model achieves AI application with zero threshold
The threshold and cost of AI technology development and application deployment in many industries has always been high, but the demand for intelligent applications has exploded. According to the survey, 86% of the market needs to customize the AI model for business scenarios. However, the cost of customizing the model through traditional methods is high and the cycle is long, resulting in the project effect not reaching the expectation. As a result, Baidu launched EasyDL zero-threshold AI development platform, which allows developers to obtain customized high-precision AI models in as little as 15 minutes.
Specifically, EasyDL has three characteristics:
- First, the whole scene realizes the AI customized training needs, supporting 17 vertical AI training tasks in seven directions;
- Second, zero-threshold hands-on AI development core, help zero-based algorithm personnel to achieve high-precision model customization, labor costs can be reduced by 80%;
- Thirdly, it ADAPTS widely to multi-modal model deployment services, adapting to more than 15 chip types and 4 major operating systems.
Up to now, EasyDL has more than 900,000 enterprise users and has been widely implemented in dozens of industries, such as industry, agriculture, retail, medical care and logistics, helping many enterprises to complete the intelligent transformation of business, greatly improving the business efficiency of enterprises and reducing technology and labor costs.
EdgeBoard embedded AI solution makes it easy to build intelligent hardware
According to IDC’s prediction, about 75% of data will be generated and processed on edge in 2025, but intelligent edge computing is faced with challenges such as algorithm training difficulty, hardware selection difficulty, secondary development and integration difficulty. In order to eliminate the pain points of intelligent edge computing and embedded scenarios, Baidu launched EdgeBoard embedded AI solution, providing full-stack AI technical services, from model construction to hardware selection and adaptation to application integration, EdgeBoard makes AI application development effortless.
Based on a series of low-power, high-quality and high-performance embedded AI computing cards and edge AI computing boxes, EdgeBoard can seamlessly integrate baidu Brain’s rich algorithm resources and model development platform, and closely combine algorithm model, basic hardware and basic software services, facilitating direct purchase and secondary development. The cost is 1/20 of that of GPU server, and the performance can be tens of times better than CPU. EdgeBoard also built-in visual management system, development integration is simple, can achieve “plug and play”.
Taking the intelligent settlement fruit and vegetable scale in the retail scene as an example, the weighing equipment combined with the integrated software and hardware scheme of EdgeBoard can realize intelligent detection and recognition. Only the fresh fruit and vegetable food can be automatically identified and weighed on the electronic scale. The accuracy of the model is up to 99%, and it only takes 300ms to complete the identification and the intelligent cashier can be completed within 1 second. Compared with the traditional manual cashier efficiency of 10-20 times, has been used in many large chain supermarkets. In addition, EdgeBoard has been widely used in environmental health, industrial quality inspection, medical diagnosis, traffic inspection, education and teaching and other scenarios.
AI market builds industry chain service platform to accelerate commercialization
At present, the AI industry is in the early stage of vigorous development. Due to information asymmetry, long supply and demand connection chain, weak brand influence and other problems in the early stage of development, hardware and software manufacturers have encountered many difficulties in practical connection. Baidu AI market is the first commercial platform in China dedicated to serving the AI industry chain, aiming to link AI demanders and AI service providers, get through both supply and demand, gather AI upstream and downstream products, and promote the landing of AI applications.
Baidu AI market gathers more than 1200 service providers and provides more than 10,000 AI products for demanders, including multi-dimensional software capabilities, hardware products, solutions, data services, etc. It is the preferred platform for enterprises to purchase AI services and realize one-stop AI enabling business.
In the field of digital imaging, Sepair became the first batch of enterprises to enter baidu AI market in 2018. Within half a year of entering, sepair’s number of customers in Baidu AI market has exceeded 1/4 of the total channel customers. By the end of 2019, sepair had gained 36% new customers and 45% new sales. Baidu AI market has low cost of acquiring customers, providing enterprises with more accurate market orientation and a more vertical business market. Sepair also launched a series of new products through the deep adaptation of Baidu brain AI technology, and achieved more market development space.
The era of intelligence has arrived. In the process of artificial intelligence to promote a new round of industrial upgrading, Baidu Brain is becoming the “new AI infrastructure” in the era of intelligence. Currently, Baidu brain owns the world’s leading core technologies such as voice, vision, NLP, knowledge graph and deep learning, and has opened more than 270 core AI technical capabilities. Baidu Brain will continue to output the most cutting-edge AI technology and core product capabilities for enterprises and developers around the world through Baidu Intelligent Cloud, providing innovative ideas for more technology developers and enterprise managers, supporting AI application production and innovation more efficiently, and accelerating the intelligent upgrading of all walks of life.
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