Bitmain engaged in the development of artificial intelligence

Leading manufacturer of equipment for mining, Bitmain, announced the release of the first products in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The initiative is being implemented at the Bitmaintech Israel Research Center, the first center of the company outside of China. "We are very proud to be part of the effort to develop software for an artificial intelligence product called Sophon. Our AI researchers focused on creating a computer version and NLP solutions optimized for the Sophon platform, "said Bitmaintech Israel head Gadi Glikberg.

According to him, new products can be the most diverse and include recognition of speech and images, technology of autonomous vehicles, improvement of surveillance systems, robotics, Internet of things (IoT) and much more.
"Deep training is very intensive, and our experience in creating high-performance mining equipment allows us to work in this exciting area of ​​computing," said the company's CEO, Micree Zhan. "The AI ​​hardware is the area in which Bitmain is actively developing to create applications for a new generation of AI."
"Bitmain sees in the AI ​​business trends similar to those that characterized the initial stage of the research in 2015. Now, after only a year and a half, we are already massively releasing chips, "he stressed.
The developers emphasize that the new products - BM1680 and SC1 - are fully compatible with popular AI platforms, including Caffe, Darknet, Googlenet, VGG, Resnet, Yolo, Yoto2 and other models.