Trends in AI 2019 Edition

AI and Machine Learning are at a tipping point. Today we summarize some of the exciting trends this year.

AI Enabled Chips

Moore’s law is dead and custom chips are here to stay. At the heart of developing chips specifically for AI lies the principle that AI requires a lot of matrix multiplication operations. Speeding those up at the hardware layer significantly speeds up the entire algorithm.

The chart below with the price of a GPU shows just how popular they’ve become in recent times due to the crypto excitement and use of…