IBM Partners With NeuReality To Build Next Generation Of AI Inference Platforms

IBM and NeuReality, an Israeli AI systems and semiconductor company, have signed an agreement to develop the next generation of high-performance AI inference platforms that will deliver disruptive cost and power consumption improvements for deep learning use cases.

IBM and NeuReality will enable critical sectors such as finance, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, and smart cities to deploy computer vision, Natural Language Processing, recommendation systems, and other AI use cases, which rely on the processing of vast amounts of data to make correct predictions in numerous different fields.

Founded in 2019, NeuReality creates purpose-built AI-platforms for ultra-scalability of real-life AI applications, and this agreement involves NR1, NeuReality’s first Server-on-a-Chip ASIC implementation of their AI-centric architecture.

NeuReality has invented AI-centric architecture, which is specifically designed for the needs of artificial intelligence. Earlier in the year, the company implemented a prototype chip that created a kind of server that runs on the chip – known as NR1-P. The finished product – NR1 – which is an attempt to solve the problem of the fact that AI requires massive amounts of computing power – caught the attention of IBM, with the two companies now collaborating to pool together knowledge, experience and offering to take AI platforms to the next level.

This partnership also marks NeuReality as the first start-up semiconductor product member of the IBM Research AI Hardware Center and licensee of the Center’s low-precision high performance Digital AI Cores. As part of the agreement, IBM becomes a NeuReality design partner and will work on the product requirements for the NR1 chip, system, and software development kit, that will be implemented in the next revision of the architecture.

“We are excited and deeply satisfied that a world-class multinational innovator like IBM is partnering with us. We believe our collaboration is a vote of confidence for our AI-centric technology and architecture and in its potential to power real life AI use cases with unprecedented deep learning capabilities,” said NeuReality CEO and co-founder Moshe Tanach.

Dr. Mukesh Khare, Vice President of Hybrid Cloud research at IBM Research, said: “In light of IBM’s vision to deliver the most advanced Hybrid Cloud and AI systems and services to our clients, teaming up with NeuReality, which brings a disruptive AI-centric approach to the table, is the type of industry collaboration we are looking for. The partnership with NeuReality is expected to drive a more streamlined and accessible AI infrastructure, which has the potential to enhance people’s lives.”