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LF Deep Learning Delivers First Acumos AI Release Making it Easier to Deploy and Share Artificial Intelligence ModelsSHANGHAI, Nov. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- KUBECON + CLOUDNATIVECON CHINA --The LF Deep Learning Foundation, a project of The Linux Foundation that supports open source innovation in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL), today announced the availability of its first software release of the Acumos AI Project - Athena. Acumos AI is a platform and open source framework that makes it easy to build, share and deploy AI applications. Acumos AI standardizes the infrastructure stack and components required to run an out-of-the-box general AI environment. This frees data scientists and model trainers to focus on their core competencies and accelerate innovation. "The Acumos Athena release represents a significant step forward in making AI models more accessible for builders of AI applications and models along with users and trainers of those models and applications," said Scott Nicholas, senior director of strategic planning at The Linux Foundation. "This furthers the goal of LF Deep Learning and the Acumos project of accelerating overall AI innovation." Major highlights of the Athena release include:
All of these features are designed to make it quick and easy to get started deploying and sharing Acumos AI applications. Full release notes can be accessed at https://wiki.acumos.org/display/REL/Athena+Release. "LF Deep Learning members, including Amdocs, AT&T, Orange, Tech Mahindra and others, are contributing to the evolution of the platform to ease the onboarding and the deployment of AI models," said LF Deep Learning Outreach Committee Chair Jamil Chawki. "The Acumos AI Marketplace, a catalog of community-contributed AI models with common APIs that can be shared ecurely across multiple systems, remains open and accessible to anyone who wishes to download or contribute models and applications." "The LF Deep Learning Foundation is focused on building an ecosystem of AI, deep learning and machine learning projects, and today's announcement represents a significant milestone toward achieving this vision," said LF Deep Learning Technical Advisory Council Chair Ofer Hermoni of Amdocs. "We're already inspired and energized by the progress of the Acumos AI Project since its initial launch earlier this year," said Mazin Gilbert, Vice President of Advanced Technology and Systems at AT&T and Governing Board Chair of LF Deep Learning. "Athena is the next step in harmonizing the AI community, furthering adoption and accelerating innovation." What's Next for Acumos AI Organizations interested in contributing projects and more information about LF Deep Learning Foundation, can go to www.deeplearningfoundation.org. Supporting Quotes "As one of the founding members of LF Deep Learning Foundation, Huawei is excited to see this growing AI developer ecosystem continue to help the Acumos AI platform mature, and reach the first major technical milestone – the Acumos Athena release! The Acumos project offers significant value to Huawei SoftCOM AI strategy – building autonomous networks with the goal of automation, self-optimization, and self-healing to help operators significantly improve network utilization and maintenance efficiency. Huawei is proud to be part of this project and will continue to work with the Acumos developer community to further enhance the Acumos AI platform and unleash the power that AI can bring to our operators." - Xiaoli Jiang, GM, Cloud Open Source Development Team, Huawei "Orange has been actively involved in Acumos since April 2018 through a Project Team Leader for the model onboarding module to manage and drive evolutions in the onboarding capabilities. This involvement shows the willingness of Orange to take part and promote the AI ecosystem in the telecom domain. Orange also considered the coherency of integrating Acumos in the continuity of all the works performed in the network automation LFN/ONAP project. Acumos is seen as a common platform that can bridge existing AI technologies and new ones through its openness. It can also favor cross business AI-based developments through its federative approach and thanks to its marketplace." - François Jezequel, Head of ITsation, Procurement and Operators, Orange "As a key contributor to the Acumos Athena release we are excited to foster a collaborative ecosystem through the Acumos AI Marketplace. It is also a testimony to our COPA framework (Co-Create using Open Source to create Platforms and bring in Automation and AI). With companies and customers increasingly adopting Acumos, industrialization of AI through a common standard and marketplace like Acumos is bound to gain more traction." - Dr. Satish Pai Sr. Vice President, Americas Communications, Media and Entertainment, Tech Mahindra About LF Deep Learning About The Linux Foundation The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see our trademark usage page: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Media Contact View original content to download multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lf-deep-learning-delivers-first-acumos-ai-release-making-it-easier-to-deploy-and-share-artificial-intelligence-models-300750211.html SOURCE LF Deep Learning Foundation |