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EpochZero and Bilic join Tony to discuss their experience last year in the Intel Liftoff Hackathon for African AI Startups. They talk about how to get the most out of a hackathon as well as the benefits they got from participating in this particular hackathon. Intel supports startups through a variety of program. Hear about how Intel Liftoff Hackathon for AI Startups is supporting innovation on the African Continent. Also learn about a variety of programs, initiatives and collations driving deep tech in Africa. Guests: Mayowa Abejirin is an impact-driven techpreneur whose main interests are in building robotics systems and engineering AI (computer vision and language) algorithms to solve some of Africa's most pressing issues. Dr. Kenneth Aguh is a medical doctor and radiologist and data scientist who is passionate about bring technology advancements into healthcare. Saminu Salisu is a Certified Software Developer and the technical founder of Bilic. He is a PhD candidate at TU Wien with a research focus in Data Engineering and holds a master's degree in Electronic Security and Digital Forensics. Mayowa Abejirin Dr. Kenneth Aguh Saminu Salisu Resources: EpochZero https://epochzero.xyz Bilic https://bilic.io Intel® Liftoff Hackathon for African AI Startups https://airtable.com/apphzz2omOZhalJDw/pagjhWl13D0jE2hnU/form ModusAfrica https://modus.vc Intel® Tiber™ Developer Cloud https://cloud.intel.com

Dr. Bienvenu Soglo joins Tony to discuss the challenges of deep tech AI start up in Africa, and how the second annual Intel Liftoff Hackathon for AI Startups is helping to bridge some of those gaps. They also discuss supporting the African continent to foster innovation. Intel supports startups through a variety of program. Hear about how IntelLiftoff Hackathon for AI Startups is supporting innovation on the African Continent. Also learn about a variety of programs, initiatives and collations driving deep tech in Africa. Guests: Dr Bienvenu Soglo Resources: Intel® Liftoff Hackathon for African AI Startups https://airtable.com/apphzz2omOZhalJDw/pagjhWl13D0jE2hnU/form ModusAfrica https://modus.vc Um6P Mohammed VI Polytechnic University https://um6p.ma/en Prosper Africa https://www.prosperafrica.gov iZET Hub https://izet.zetech.ac.ke Open Startup https://www.linkedin.com/company/open-startup-international/ FAST Accelerator https://www.fastaccelerator.com Innov8 Hub https://www.innov8hub.ng N50 Project https://www.n50project.org

Rahul Nair joins Tony to discuss how Generative AI is changing how innovators innovate and how this shows up in the many hackathons Intel Liftoff for Startups participates in. Generative AI enables immediate value creation from ideas. From creating UIs from drawings and building backend solutions in hours instead of months, GenAI is changing how we build solutions. Guests: Rahul Nair Learn More: Intel® Liftoff for Startups https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/liftoff.htm Intel® Developer Cloud https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/devcloud/services.html Intel® Data Center GPU Max Series https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/discrete-gpus/data-center-gpu/max-series.html Hugging Face https://huggingface.co/ Intel® Liftoff for Startups https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/liftoff.htm Intel® Developer Cloud https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/devcloud/services.html Intel® Data Center GPU Max Series https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/discrete-gpus/data-center-gpu/max-series.html Hugging Face https://huggingface.co/ LA Hacks https://lahacks.com/home

Ben Asaf, CTO and Co-Founder of CLIKA, joins Tony to talk about bringing AI solutions to every device through various technologies that optimize models while retaining high levels of accuracy. They also talk about the future of artificial intelligence software and hardware and how AI may need to change to really impact more users. Find this video podcast and others on the Intel Software Channel on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@IntelSoftware/podcasts Guest: Ben Asaf - CTO/Co-Founder of CLIKA Ben Asaf Learn more: CLIKA: https://www.clika.io Intel Ignite: https://intelignite.com Intel® Core™ Ultra Processors: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/processors/core-ultra.html Intel Gaudi AI Processors: https://habana.ai

David Berenstein joins Tony to discuss how Argilla is scaling LLM AI solutions. They touch on how Argilla's end to end solutions simplify deploying LLMs in practice using their open source stack. They also talk about how they are taking advantage of Intel Developer Cloud and Intel Gaudi AI Accelerators. They also talk about how open source based software companies support their customers. Find this video podcast and others on the Intel Software Channel on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@IntelSoftware/podcasts Guest: David Berenstein - Developer Advocate Engineer @ Argilla David Berenstein Learn more: Argilla https://argilla.io Intel® Liftoff for Startups https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/liftoff.html Intel® Developer Cloud https://cloud.intel.com Intel Gaudi AI Accelerators https://habana.ai Hugging Face Spaces https://huggingface.co/spaces Intel® Geti™ https://geti.intel.com

Markus and Florian of Starwit Technologies join Tony to talk about how AI can make our cities smarter using existing infrastructure. They also talk about how AI is changing the development process and the rapidly changing AI landscape. Guests: Markus Zarbock - CEO/CoFounder Starwit Technologies Florian Stanek - Technical Lead CoFounder Starwit Technologies Markus Zarbock Florian Stanek Learn more: Starwit Technolgoies https://starwit-technologies.de/ Intel® Liftoff for Startups https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/liftoff.html Intel® Xeon® CPU Max Series https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/processors/xeon/max-series.html

Jonas Menesklou, CEO of AskUI joins Tony to talk about how Generative AI is changing the way startups and developers compete in a rapidly changing world powered by AI solutions. They also discuss how human computer interaction will be affected by AI and how AskUI is helping enterprises streamline and test their workflows. Jonas Menesklou CEO of AskUI Jonas Menesklou Learn more: AskUI https://askui.com Intel Liftoff for Startups https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/liftoff.html AskUI Prompt to Text model https://huggingface.co/AskUI/pta-text-0.1 Top 2024 Trends from Our Intel Liftoff members Trends in AI 2024

In Part 2 of the 2024 AI Trends to Watch podcast, Rahul and Ryan join Tony to talk about how Generative AI is affecting society, and strategies to ensure secure and productive AI solutions. They also talk about the current state of AI code generation tools and whether such solutions are ready to replace developers. Guests: Rahul Nair Ryan Metz Learn More: GitHub Copilot https://github.com/features/copilot Intel Real-Time Deepfake Detector https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-introduces-real-time-deepfake-detector.html Intel® Liftoff for Startups https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/liftoff.htm Intel® Developer Cloud https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/devcloud/services.html Intel® Core™ Ultra AI PC https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/processors/core-ultra/ai-pc.html Intel® Data Center GPU Max Series https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/discrete-gpus/data-center-gpu/max-series.html

Rahul and Ryan join Tony to talk about the top trends in AI that startups in the Intel Liftoff for Startups program see coming. From multi-modal AI models to commoditization of LLM APIs, they discuss what to look out for in 2024. Guests: Rahul Nair Ryan Metz Learn More: Intel® Liftoff for Startups https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/liftoff.htm Intel® Developer Cloud https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/devcloud/services.html Intel® Data Center GPU Max Series https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/discrete-gpus/data-center-gpu/max-series.html Hugging Face https://huggingface.co/ The Mango Jelly https://themangojelly.com/ Sitemana https://sitemana.com/ Genmo https://www.genmo.ai/ Prediction Guard https://www.predictionguard.com/ Argonne Leadership Computing Facility - Aurora https://www.alcf.anl.gov/aurora

Asaf Ezra joins Tony to discuss the benefits of Granulate how it can help improve the performance and reduce your cloud consumption without code changes. They also talk about how Generative AI is changing the landscape of businesses and society. Guest: Asaf Ezra - CEO of Granulate Asaf Ezra Learn more: Granulate https://granulate.io InTechnology Podcast with Asaf Ezra hosted by Camille Morhardt https://youtu.be/0qfx2fq_lV4?si=Y3VFymQUoJWDObiw Databricks and Photon https://www.databricks.com/ https://www.databricks.com/product/photon Gluten https://github.com/oap-project/gluten Spark https://spark.apache.org/ Kubernetes https://kubernetes.io Llama 2 https://ai.meta.com/llama/ OpenAI https://openai.com Mixtral Model https://mistral.ai/news/mixtral-of-experts/

Eduardo Alvarez joins Tony to talk about how the AI landscape for businesses and developers is changing rapidly, and how we need to move to take advantage of the opportunities and not get left behind. They also talk about fine-tuning Llama2 with LoRA on Gaudi2 and the benefits for users. Guest: Eduardo Alvarez - AI Solutions Engineer @ Intel Eduardo Alvarez Learn more: Eduardo's blog post https://medium.com/@eduand-alvarez/a-case-for-operational-centric-ai-6e97dfa4fc23 oneAPI https://oneapi.io https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/overview.html Unified Acceleration Foundation https://uxlfoundation.org/ Bob Duffy Stable Diffusion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF6DiktPsaA Llama2 Fine-Tuning with Low-Rank Adaptations (LoRA) on Gaudi 2 Processors https://eduand-alvarez.medium.com/llama2-fine-tuning-with-low-rank-adaptations-lora-on-gaudi-2-processors-52cf1ee6ce11 President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/10/30/fact-sheet-president-biden-issues-executive-order-on-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-artificial-intelligence/

Darryl Adams joins Tony to talk about how generative AI solutions will change the way we interactive with technology. They talk about how to extend current solutions, and how developers and technologists might design better solutions leveraging generative AI capabilities. Guest: Darryl Adams - Director of Accessibility at Intel. Darryl Adams Resources: Goodmaps https://goodmaps.com Ximira https://www.ximira.org BeMyEyes https://bemyeyes.com OpenAI https://openai.com OmniBridge https://omnibridge.ai Cephable https://cephable.com Check out more Intel podcasts at: https://www.intel.com/podcasts

Advancements in genomics have accelerated significantly over the past few decades as compute technology has grown exponentially. Professor Alessandra Ilic and Ricardo Nobre join Tony to talk about their research and how oneAPI is helping them accelerate research in the area of epistasis detection, which in genetics is when the effect of a gene or set of genes is affected by the presences or absence of another set of genes. Guests: Aleksandar Ilic is an Assistant Professor at the IST, University of Lisbon, and a Researcher of INESC-ID, Portugal. His research interests include high-performance and energy-efficient computing and modeling of parallel heterogeneous systems. Ricardo Nobre is a PostDoc researcher at the INESC-ID R&D center in Lisbon/Portugal, as part of the High-Performance Computing Architectures and Systems (HPCAS) research area. His interests include high-performance computing, parallel programming, compilers and machine learning. Aleksandar Ilic Ricardo Nobre Resources: INESC-ID Achieves 9x Acceleration for Epistasis Disease Detection using oneAPI Tools and Intel Hardware https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/case-study/inesc-id-9x-acceleration-for-disease-detection-app.html?wapkw=inesc Source Code https://github.com/hiperbio Intel® Advisor https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/advisor.html Intel® VTune™ Profiler https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/vtune-profiler.html oneAPI https://oneapi.io https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/overview.html 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors Intel® Data Center GPU Max Series References: D. Marques, R. Campos, S. Santander-Jiménez, Z. Matveev, L. Sousa and A. Ilic. Unlocking Personalized Healthcare on Modern CPUs/GPUs: Three-way Gene Interaction Study. Paper presented in the 36th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) Lyon, France, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS53621.2022.00023 R. Nobre, A. Ilic, S. Santander-Jiménez and L. Sousa. Fourth-Order Exhaustive Epistasis Detection for the xPU Era. Paper presented in the 50th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Chicago, USA, 2021. DOI: 10.1145/3472456.3472509 D. Marques, A. Ilic, Z. A. Matveev, and L. Sousa. Application-driven Cache-aware Roofline Model. Future Generation Computer Systems 107 (2020): 257-273. DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2020.01.044 Ilic, F. Pratas, and L. Sousa. Cache-aware roofline model: Upgrading the loft. IEEE Computer Architecture Letters 13.1 (2013): 21-24. DOI: 10.1109/L-CA.2013.6 Check out more Intel podcasts at: https://www.intel.com/podcasts

Eduardo Alvarez joins Tony to talk about using open large language models (LLMs) to compete with closed source alternatives isn't as hard as one may think. He also talks about how the industry is changing around AI solutions with the popularity of open models thanks to companies like Hugging Face and the GPT4All community. Eduardo then talks about his experience running hackathons and the brand new Intel Developer Certification program, which he created the MLOps content for. Finally they wrap up with a discussion about his journey as a LatinX engineer celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month. Guest: Eduardo Alvarez - AI Solutions Engineer @ Intel Eduardo Alvarez Learn more: Hugging Face https://huggingface.co/ GPT4All https://gpt4all.io OpenVINO Toolkit https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/openvino-toolkit/overview.htm Intel Neural Compressor https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/neural-compressor.html Intel® Extension for Transformers https://github.com/intel/intel-extension-for-transformers Intel® Neural Compressor https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/neural-compressor.html Intel® Developer Cloud https://cloud.intel.com oneAPI https://oneapi.io

Kavita Aroor guest hosts a panel discussion from some oneAPI Innovators in the AI space who participated in a oneAPI AI Hackathon and Usha Rengaraju, one of the judges of the competition. They share their insights into where to apply AI, why AI matters and how oneAPI based solutions are helping to bring performant solutions to the AI space. They also talk about their unique journeys as women in data science. Kavita Aroor is a Developer Marketing Lead for Asia Pacific and Japan at Intel. She drives the developer outreach, engagements, and programs in the areas of GPU, HPC and AI. Usha Rengaraju currently heads the data science research at Exa Protocol and she is the World’s first women triple Kaggle Grandmaster. She specializes in Deep Learning and Probabilistic Graphical Models and was also one of the judges of Tiger Graph “ Graph for all – Million Dollar Challenge” in 2022. She is ranked as top ten Data Scientists in India for the year 2020 by Analytics India Magazine, ranked as top ten women data scientists by Analytics Insight magazine for 2021 and also ranked as top 150 AI Leaders and Influencers by 3AI magazine. Deepthi A J is a passionate and dedicated Ph.D. scholar with a strong focus on research and innovation. She is a trainer, who imparts knowledge and expertise to aspiring learners. With expertise in conveying complex ideas concisely, she contributes to both academic and professional realms. Anusha C A is a passionate software engineer with a drive for innovation and a deep curiosity for exploring new technologies. She is skilled in developing robust solutions through years of experience at Lam Research and Honeywell and is committed to diversity and inclusion to create a meaningful social impact. Learn More: Intel Developer Cloud https://cloud.intel.com oneAPI https://oneapi.io Intel® AI Analytics Toolkit https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/ai-analytics-toolkit.html

Kavita Aroor guest hosts a panel discussion from some oneAPI Innovators in the AI space who participated in a oneAPI AI Hackathon. They share their insights into where to apply AI, why AI matters and how oneAPI based solutions are helping to bring performant solutions to the AI space. Kavita Aroor is a Developer Marketing Lead for Asia Pacific and Japan at Intel. She drives the developer outreach, engagements, and programs in the areas of GPU, HPC and AI. Mohan Krishna R has around 13 years of experience in providing comprehensive solutions to complex data problem across multiple industries like technology, FMCG, retail etc. He is currently working as Principal AI Scientist at Course5 AI Labs. His work around predicting the Indian Elections winner using social data got published in mainstream media include the Washington Post, Economic Times (digital & print) and Bloomberg. Sudarshan Bandyopadhyay is currently pursuing his masters from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in Robotics and Autonomous Systems (Cyber Physical Systems). His current area of interests are Edge AI, Embedded Systems and Machine Learning. He currently works under the guidance of Dr. Punit Rathore for developing an Intrusion Detection System using ML for Autonomous Vehicles. Yuvraj Singh Deora is an enthusiastic tech pursuer currently on the path to an Integrated M.Tech in Software Engineering at VIT. His drive lies in bridging the gap between cutting-edge technology and real-world solutions. From AI and IoT to Blockchain, he is dedicated to tackling practical challenges that truly matter. Learn More: Intel Developer Cloud https://cloud.intel.com oneAPI https://oneapi.io Intel® AI Analytics Toolkit https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/ai-analytics-toolkit.html

Tony is joined by Kevin Harms of Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) and Mohamad Chaarwi of Intel to discuss how the open source Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage (DAOS) project will enable world class I/O performance on the Aurora Exascale Supercomputer. Guests: Kevin Harms is a team lead of the ALCF's Performance Engineering group. His interests include working on high performance storage and I/O. Mohamad Chaarawi is a senior software engineer in the DAOS group at Intel. He is responsible for the DAOS client library and other middleware IO libraries and application porting over the DAOS stack. Kevin Harms Mohamad Chaarawi Learn More: Aurora Supercomputer https://www.alcf.anl.gov/aurora Argonne Leadership Computing Facility https://www.alcf.anl.gov Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage (DAOS) https://docs.daos.io/v2.2/ IO500 List https://io500.org/list/sc22/full?sort=io500_bw&direction=desc oneAPI https://oneapi.io https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/overview.html Check out more Intel podcasts at: https://www.intel.com/podcasts

Enabled Play is a platform that helps anyone access and control their technology in ways that work for them. Enabled Play CEO Alex Dunn joins Tony to talk about how Enabled Play technology creates accessible experiences for games, productivity on any platform using their SDK. Alex talks about how their AI technology uses Intel hardware and software to make these experiences a reality. Guest: Alex Dunn is CEO of Enabled Play. He was just recognized as a Forbes 30 under 30 to watch in the Boston area. He is focused on bringing solutions accessible solutions to businesses and individuals. Alex Dunn - CEO of Enabled Play Learn more: Enabled Play https://enabledplay.com/ OpenVINO™ Toolkit http://openvino.ai oneAPI https://oneapi.io https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/overview.html Intel® Liftoff for Startups https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/liftoff.html Intel® Developer Cloud https://cloud.intel.com

Ahmed Joudad, CEO of Beewant, a multimodal AI solutions company joins Tony to discuss how Beewant is solving problems by being a first mover in the multimodal AI space. They talk about business solutions, as well as how Paris is taking advantage of their technology. Ahmed and Tony also talk about how Intel Liftoff for Startups, Intel Developer Cloud and oneAPI based solution are accelerating the capabilities and time to market of their platform. Finally they wrap up discussing Ahmed's path to being a founder/CEO, about the future of AI and why secure AI solutions matter. Guest: Ahmed Joudad is the founder of Beewant, an AI Platform that makes it easy for companies to navigate through large volumes of unstructured data. He spent most of his career working for a global provider of financial market data and platforms. He always had a passion for technology, particularly AI and machine learning and believes that the key to unlocking the full potential of AI is high-quality data that would enable algorithms to learn and improve. Ahmed Joudad - CEO of Beewant Learn more: Beewant https://www.beewant.com/ oneAPI https://oneapi.io https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/overview.html Intel® Liftoff for Startups https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/liftoff.html Intel® Developer Cloud https://cloud.intel.com

Tony sits down with the Intel Geti team which is on the cutting edge of simplifying computer vision AI solutions for businesses. They talk about how the product works and where businesses are integrating Intel Geti into their solutions. They also talk about how AI has changed over the past 10 years and the possibilities of multi-modal AI solutions in the future. Guests: Ashutosh Kumar drives technical marketing efforts for Intel Geti. He holds a Ph.D. in Material Science and an MBA and 10+ years of experience in software development, R&D, and product across semiconductor, software security, and machine learning domains. Oliver Hamilton is the Intel Geti Technical Product Manager, shaping the roadmap items and future of Intel’s computer vision training platform. He has a PhD in Computer Vision and has been working in the field for over 10 years on use cases from security, medical and agritech. Ashutosh Kumar Oliver Hamilton The Intel Geti platform enables teams to rapidly build computer vision models and accelerate business automation with AI. It is a commercial software product by Intel, that comes with a 30-day trial option and is sold with an annual license. Learn More: Contact us: https://geti.intel.com/contact-us Watch the webinar to learn more: https://geti.intel.com/event/the-intel-geti-platform-breaking-the-bottlenecks-of-ai-development-with-an-agile-intuitive-platform Watch a demo: https://geti.intel.com/video/product-demo-core-capabilities-overview Case studies: https://geti.intel.com/case-studies Blogs: https://geti.intel.com/blogs Bravent Complex Machinery Assembly Use Case https://geti.intel.com/case-study/bravent-creates-agile-scalable-industrial-vision-solutions-with-intel-geti-platform-and-openvino-toolkit Royal Brompton Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) Study https://geti.intel.com/case-study/new-computer-vision-platform-helps-clinicians-train-ai-to-recognize-a-rare-disease Bird Box Bot https://twitter.com/BirdBoxBot Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ Toolkit https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=intel+openvino&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 Check out more Intel podcasts at: https://www.intel.com/podcasts