{"id":108862,"date":"2020-06-18T19:09:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T02:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-startup-making-deep-learning-possible-without-specialized-hardware"},"modified":"2020-06-18T19:09:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T02:09:03","slug":"the-startup-making-deep-learning-possible-without-specialized-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-startup-making-deep-learning-possible-without-specialized-hardware","title":{"rendered":"The startup making deep learning possible without specialized hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-startup-making-deep-learning-possible-without-specialized-hardware2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The discovery that led Nir Shavit to start a company came about the way most discoveries do: by accident. The MIT professor was working on a project to reconstruct a map of a mouse\u2019s brain and needed some help from deep learning. Not knowing how to program graphics cards, or GPUs, the most common hardware choice for deep-learning models, he opted instead for a central processing unit, or CPU, the most generic computer chip found in any average laptop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLo and behold,\u201d Shavit recalls, \u201cI realized that a CPU can do what a GPU does\u2014if programmed in the right way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This insight is now the basis for his startup, Neural Magic, which launched its first suite of products today. The idea is to allow any company to deploy a deep-learning model without the need for specialized hardware. It would not only lower the costs of deep learning but also make AI more widely accessible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discovery that led Nir Shavit to start a company came about the way most discoveries do: by accident. The MIT professor was working on a project to reconstruct a map of a mouse\u2019s brain and needed some help from deep learning. Not knowing how to program graphics cards, or GPUs, the most common hardware [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}