Microsoft Launches Project Brainwave for Deep Learning Acceleration

Microsoft announced that its artificial intelligence technology called Project Brainwave will be made available on its Azure cloud computing service, and in due course made available as a piece of hardware to be set up on the edge (in-house at the client site). Currently AI services are not in high demand, but being used for image recognition (labelling photos) and text analytics (reviewing legal contracts). However, demand is expected to increase primarily through image recognition services such as crop monitoring, medical scan processing, security footage analysis and self-driving cars.