BRN Discussion Ongoing

[Guzzi62]

Again my question: What is wrong with Akida or BrainChip that even Edge Impulse does not use it???

Never mind, a small company with around 110 employees, and we don't know if they suggest customers using something from BRN or not.

My understanding of Edge Impulse is that they make solutions to other companies.

We are still listed as an ecosystem partner, so no need to start getting worried about it.

I hope a real big fish will take the bait soon.

Ecosystem Partners

The Edge Impulse Partner Ecosystem

edgeimpulse.com

 

[DingoBorat]

Never mind, a small company with around 110 employees, and we don't know if they suggest customers using something from BRN or not.

My understanding of Edge Impulse is that they make solutions to other companies.

We are still listed as an ecosystem partner, so no need to start getting worried about it.

I hope a real big fish will take the bait soon.

Ecosystem Partners

The Edge Impulse Partner Ecosystem

edgeimpulse.com

"I hope a real big fish will take the bait soon"

I think some really big fish, have already taken the bait and swallowed it.
Real good in fact and if the hook was to be taken out now, it's gonna take out some "important" bits with it..

We just haven't pulled them out of the water yet, is all..

 

[TopCat]

"I hope a real big fish will take the bait soon"

I think some really big fish, have already swallowed the bait.
Real good in fact and if the hook was to be taken out now, it's gonna take out some "important" bits with it..

We just haven't pulled them out of the water yet, is all..

I’m still thinking something with Intel. They didn’t put us up on that screen for all to see for nothing!

 

[Smoothsailing]

Intel 18A is my guess.

 

[Fullmoonfever]

Was having a flick through the last Neurotech Report I could find from the EU. Was on their deliverable roadmap and in late 22 or something.

Anyway, was more about some of the Yole info they put in there that I liked re the state of neuromorphic and projections.

Can see in the first snip where we kicked in and yeah, about 3+ years ahead of the newbies at that time. 2024 was also indicated that the crossover would see some potential traction.

Report HERE

 

[Frangipani]

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Embedded World NA 2024 – October 8-10 (Austin, TX)

Embedded World NA 2024 Join BrainChip at Embedded World North America, taking place from October 8-10, 2024, at the Convention Center in Austin, TX. This premier event is the global platform for the embedded community, attracting top experts, key players, and industry associations from around...

brainchip.com

Embedded World NA 2024​

Join BrainChip at Embedded World North America, taking place from October 8-10, 2024, at the Convention Center in Austin, TX. This premier event is the global platform for the embedded community, attracting top experts, key players, and industry associations from around the world. Visit us at Booth 1947B, where we will be showcasing exciting demos, including our Temporal Event-based Neural Networks (TENNs) and the Raspberry Pi 5 with Face and Edge Learning. Don’t miss the opportunity to connect and learn more about our innovative solutions.


The sold-out Raspberry Pi Akida Dev Kit was based on a Raspberry 4…

 

[Frangipani]

Embedded World NA 2024 – October 8-10 (Austin, TX)

Embedded World NA 2024 Join BrainChip at Embedded World North America, taking place from October 8-10, 2024, at the Convention Center in Austin, TX. This premier event is the global platform for the embedded community, attracting top experts, key players, and industry associations from around...

brainchip.com

Embedded World NA 2024​

Join BrainChip at Embedded World North America, taking place from October 8-10, 2024, at the Convention Center in Austin, TX. This premier event is the global platform for the embedded community, attracting top experts, key players, and industry associations from around the world. Visit us at Booth 1947B, where we will be showcasing exciting demos, including our Temporal Event-based Neural Networks (TENNs) and the Raspberry Pi 5 with Face and Edge Learning. Don’t miss the opportunity to connect and learn more about our innovative solutions.


The sold-out Raspberry Pi Akida Dev Kit was based on a Raspberry 4…

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Raspberry Pi offers an AI Kit with a Hailo AI acceleration module containing an NPU for use with the Raspberry Pi 5.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/accessories/ai-kit.html

Maybe there has been something similar in the works for our company?

Steve Brightfields Presso from the recent AI Hardware & Edge AI Summit,

Hadn't noticed if posted but haven't read every post as been bit busy.

Link to Kiasco who posted it or I scrolled it below for quick reading.

AI Hardware & Edge AI Summit Speaker Presentations

www.kisacoresearch.com

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Could the mysterious Akida Pico have anything to do with the Raspberry Pi Pico series of microcontrollers?

https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/microcontrollers/pico-series.html

 

[Humble Genius]

Again my question: What is wrong with Akida or BrainChip that even Edge Impulse does not use it???

Thinking glass half full, we could still be part of the 3 partnerships mentioned on these last 2 pages of the thread, ie the much talked about NDA's preventing BRN from being mentioned?

 

[cosors]

Energy required to power AI data centres really becoming an issue as we all know.........edge computing must be compelling for these AI giants

Microsoft signs historic nuclear power deal to fuel AI data centres

The owner of the infamous Three Mile Island nuclear plant in the US has announced a $1.6 billion plan to restart part of the operation to power a series

smallcaps.com.au

Happy as Larry

"OpenAI has pitched the Biden administration on the need for massive data centers that could each use as much power as entire cities, framing the unprecedented expansion as necessary to develop more advanced artificial intelligence models and compete with China.

Following a recent meeting at the White House, which was attended by OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman and other tech leaders, the startup shared a document with government officials outlining the economic and national security benefits of building 5 gigawatt data centers in various US states, based on an analysis the company engaged with outside experts on. To put that in context, 5 GW is roughly the equivalent of five nuclear reactors, or enough to power almost 3 million homes."

OpenAI Pitched White House on Unprecedented Data Center Buildout

OpenAI has pitched the Biden administration on the need for massive data centers that could each use as much power as entire cities, framing the unprecedented expansion as necessary to develop more advanced artificial intelligence models and compete with China.

www.bloomberg.com

 

[Guzzi62]

Not my DD but FF's.

Robust Iterative Value Conversion: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Neurochip-driven Edge Robots​

A neurochip is a device that reproduces the signal processing mechanisms of brain neurons and calculates Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) with low power consumption and at high speed. Thus, neurochips are attracting attention from edge robot applications, which suffer from limited battery capacity

[2408.13018] Robust Iterative Value Conversion: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Neurochip-driven Edge Robots

www.arxiv.org

We verified RIVC's effectiveness on a neurochip-driven robot. The results showed that RIVC consumed 1/15 times less power and increased the calculation speed by five times more than an edge CPU (quad-core ARM Cortex-A72)

RICV:
5.1.1. Entire Experiment Settings
This section describes the construction of the proposed framework shown in
Fig. 2. We utilized a desktop PC equipped with a GPU (Nvidia RTX3090) for
updating the policies and an Akida Neural Processor SoC as a neurochip [9, 12].
The robot was controlled by the policies implemented in the neurochip. SNNs
were implemented to the neurochip by a conversion executed by the MetaTF
of Akida that converts the software [9, 12].

https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2408.13018

 

[Fullmoonfever]

Not my DD but FF's.

Robust Iterative Value Conversion: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Neurochip-driven Edge Robots​

A neurochip is a device that reproduces the signal processing mechanisms of brain neurons and calculates Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) with low power consumption and at high speed. Thus, neurochips are attracting attention from edge robot applications, which suffer from limited battery capacity

[2408.13018] Robust Iterative Value Conversion: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Neurochip-driven Edge Robots

www.arxiv.org

We verified RIVC's effectiveness on a neurochip-driven robot. The results showed that RIVC consumed 1/15 times less power and increased the calculation speed by five times more than an edge CPU (quad-core ARM Cortex-A72)

RICV:
5.1.1. Entire Experiment Settings
This section describes the construction of the proposed framework shown in
Fig. 2. We utilized a desktop PC equipped with a GPU (Nvidia RTX3090) for
updating the policies and an Akida Neural Processor SoC as a neurochip [9, 12].
The robot was controlled by the policies implemented in the neurochip. SNNs
were implemented to the neurochip by a conversion executed by the MetaTF
of Akida that converts the software [9, 12].

https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2408.13018

Or was it.....

I gotta protect my billable (wish) DD IP hours... I'll happily take any effective SP rise as payment though

Thankfully through our collective DD efforts info is generally found on this site first most of the time.

BRN Discussion Ongoing

As much as Peter and others within the Brainchip executive like and admire Mike Davies I think our technology is far superior, our Brains department haven't stalled, we've continued to "accelerate" and to be perfectly honest I wouldn't entertain a takeover offer from Intel..I'll stick with...

thestockexchange.com.au

 

[Guzzi62]

Or was it.....

I gotta protect my billable (wish) DD IP hours... I'll happily take any effective SP rise as payment though

Thankfully through our collective DD efforts info is generally found on this site first most of the time.

BRN Discussion Ongoing

As much as Peter and others within the Brainchip executive like and admire Mike Davies I think our technology is far superior, our Brains department haven't stalled, we've continued to "accelerate" and to be perfectly honest I wouldn't entertain a takeover offer from Intel..I'll stick with...

thestockexchange.com.au

Ohh damned, my memory seems short LOL, but good to see you can joke about it and not getting angry because of "I was first syndrome".

Well it's good enough to bring up again because I think it clearly shows how good Akida is compared to the competition and persons in the know writes papers about it.

We must be getting close to some deals I am sure, too much (good) press about our technology to be ignored by smart people in the business.

 

[Frangipani]

Or was it.....

I gotta protect my billable (wish) DD IP hours... I'll happily take any effective SP rise as payment though

Thankfully through our collective DD efforts info is generally found on this site first most of the time.

BRN Discussion Ongoing

As much as Peter and others within the Brainchip executive like and admire Mike Davies I think our technology is far superior, our Brains department haven't stalled, we've continued to "accelerate" and to be perfectly honest I wouldn't entertain a takeover offer from Intel..I'll stick with...

thestockexchange.com.au

Exactly…

In fact, I had posted about those NAIST researchers and the Megachips connection even four days earlier after spotting their YouTube video that revealed they had been utilising AKD1000, but couldn’t yet access the whole paper at the time. So your post nicely complemented mine…

On August 20, four researchers from Nara Institute of Science and Technology’s NAIST Robot Learning Lab (one of them has meanwhile graduated with an M.E. and landed a job as an engineer at NTT Docomo, Japan’s largest mobile provider owned by NTT - Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) and a former Nara Institute of Science and Technology M.E. student, now working for Mega Chips, published a paper titled Robust iterative value conversion: Deep reinforcement learning for neuro-chip-driven edge robots.
They also credit another NAIST Master student, Alonso Ramos Fernandez, for his experimental assistance.

The paper’s first author, Yuki Kadokawa, reports financial support was provided by MegaChips Corporation.

While I can’t access the full version of their paper, the video they uploaded to YouTube on August 21 is clear evidence they utilised AKD1000 for their research.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921889024001660

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[Fullmoonfever]

Exactly…

In fact, I had posted about those NAIST researchers and the Megachips connection even four days earlier after spotting their YouTube video that revealed they had been utilising AKD1000, but couldn’t yet access the whole paper at the time. So your post nicely complemented mine…

And therein lies the collective

 

[Food4 thought]

Again my question: What is wrong with Akida or BrainChip that even Edge Impulse does not use it???

Interesting to see no Brainchip on the thank you partners list
But maybe I miss read this on linked in

 

[7für7]

Interesting to see no Brainchip on the thank you partners list
But maybe I miss read this on linked in

Don’t know about you… but you should read between the lines (sorry I marked one “I” to much)

 

[The Pope]

Just had a look on the BrainChip website and noticed Mercedes not on the list of partners.

Partners

Become a partner!

brainchip.com

There appears to be other updates as well but does anyone look at this reasonably frequently (ie once a week)

Cheers
The Pope

 

[Guzzi62]

Just had a look on the BrainChip website and noticed Mercedes not on the list of partners.

Partners

Become a partner!

brainchip.com

There appears to be other updates as well but does anyone look at this reasonably frequently (ie once a week)

Cheers
The Pope

Go to the home page.

In the bottom there is a line saying, you are in good company.

Under the line is a rolling list of companies and the M.B. star is there.

 

[Fullmoonfever]

Just had a look on the BrainChip website and noticed Mercedes not on the list of partners.

Partners

Become a partner!

brainchip.com

There appears to be other updates as well but does anyone look at this reasonably frequently (ie once a week)

Cheers
The Pope

Still shows on the homepage slide.

Maybe BRN didn't update that page yet to remove them ....or maybe MB aren't a partner but now a customer

Home

Unlock the power of AI with BrainChip. Enhance data processing, Edge apps and neural networks at the speed of tomorrow. Explore now!

brainchip.com

 

[Fullmoonfever]

Go to the home page.

In the bottom there is a line saying, you are in good company.

Under the line is a rolling list of companies and the M.B. star is there.

Snap