Fully Connected – a series where Chris and Daniel keep you up to date with everything that’s happening in the AI community.

This week we discuss all things inference, which involves utilizing an already trained AI model and integrating it into the software stack. First, we focus on some new hardware from Amazon for inference and NVIDIA’s open sourcing of TensorRT for GPU-optimized inference. Then we talk about performing inference at the edge and in the browser with things like the recently announced ONNX JS.

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Featuring:

• Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

News:

• NVIDIA’s open sourcing of TensorRT
• Amazon launches a machine learning chip
• The recently announced ONNX JS project
• Snapdragon Neural Processing Engine SDK

Learning resources:

• Rise of the model servers
• TensorRT server tutorial
• ONNX JS on GitHub
• TensorFlow JS tutorials

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