DEEPX (CEO Lokwon Kim), an AI semiconductor firm specializing in low-power on-device AI, introduced on the 18th that it has signed a ‘PaddlePaddle Expertise Ecosystem Partnership’ settlement with international AI chief Baidu in Shenzhen, China, and can start strategic cooperation to unfold AI options relevant to international industrial websites.
As an official ecosystem companion primarily based on Baidu’s open-source deep studying framework PaddlePaddle, DEEPX will collectively take part in varied industrial AI initiatives, co-develop merchandise primarily based on expertise compatibility, and promote international buyer promotion actions.
Baidu’s PaddlePaddle is China’s first open-source deep studying framework, a core expertise platform for creating and operating AI fashions. The identify is brief for “PArallel Distributed Deep LEarning” and is designed to rapidly course of massive quantities of information and function effectively on a wide range of gadgets.
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It’s utilized in a variety of industries, together with good cities, autonomous driving, picture recognition, speech processing, and extra, and is thought to be probably the most extensively used AI improvement device in China, adopted by hundreds of corporations and establishments, in addition to by Baidu’s personal inside merchandise. Particularly, PaddlePaddle is positioned as a “full-stack AI platform” that helps your complete course of from AI mannequin improvement to deployment by offering ready-to-use instruments resembling pre-trained fashions, lightweighting instruments, and visualization instruments.
Previous to the settlement, DEEPX’s mass-produced chip, the DX-M1, was demonstrated in real-time on Baidu’s fifth-generation PP-OCR and VLM-based fashions, attaining extraordinarily excessive FPS (frames per second) and energy effectivity (FPS/W), particularly on industrial PCs primarily based in edge environments with restricted battery assets. Baidu has expressed a willingness for additional energetic collaboration sooner or later.
The cooperation will prolong not solely to OCR, but in addition to drones and robots. Baidu PaddlePaddle and ERNIE Crew will compile its present AI fashions for drones and VLM+impediment avoidance fashions for robots into the DX-M1 and commercialize them for deployment in real-world robotics and drone initiatives.
In the meantime, DEEPX is within the strategy of changing and compiling 10 consultant OpenVINO-based AI fashions extensively used within the business to be appropriate with the DX-M1, and these fashions will likely be shared with international companions in Baidu’s PaddlePaddle ecosystem. That is anticipated to make it simpler for varied prospects to undertake and scale AI merchandise powered by DEEPX NPUs.
DEEPX can be creating V-NPU, a devoted NPU card for imaginative and prescient AI that may exchange GPUs, and has accomplished preliminary demos with mass manufacturing anticipated to start in September. Cooperation between DEEPX and Baidu on next-generation product improvement can be being mentioned. DEEPX will make the most of Samsung Foundry’s next-generation AI semiconductor “DX-M2” primarily based on 2nm course of to validate a prototype to run Baidu’s massive AI mannequin “ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B” (MoE-based).
As well as, Baidu PaddlePaddle and ERNIE Crew has proposed to collectively exhibit DEEPX on the 2025 Shenzhen (Worldwide) Synthetic Basic Intelligence Convention in Shenzhen on the finish of August, and also will conduct on-site demonstrations and joint advertising and marketing to international prospects.
Baidu PaddlePaddle and ERNIE Crew mentioned: “As a companion with wonderful low-power AI semiconductor expertise, DEEPX will add highly effective edge computing capabilities to Baidu AI technical ecosystem, particularly the DX-M1, which vastly enhances the sensible applicability of PaddlePaddle-based AI fashions in varied industries resembling OCR, robotics, and drones. By way of this collaboration, Baidu PaddlePaddle and ERNIE will speed up the enlargement of the ecosystem to make it simpler for extra corporations to implement AI in real-world industries.”
“Our partnership with Baidu, marks an necessary turning level within the speedy unfold of DEEPX’s AI semiconductor expertise to international industrial websites,” mentioned Lokwon Kim, CEO of DEEPX. “We’ll strengthen our competitiveness within the international AI market via sensible productization primarily based on the PaddlePaddle and ERNIE Ecosystem and varied industrial collaborations.”
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