tinyML Foundation Presents:
A tinyAI Virtual Forum on Generative AI and Foundation Models on the Edge
Dates: March 27-28, 2024
Time: 7-10am US Pacific Time
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Foundation models and generative AI have enabled a new generation of cloud AI applications. Meanwhile, embedded machine learning and tinyML are bringing AI to the edge of the network. As hardware and algorithms become more efficient, these fields are starting to collide.
For the first time ever, this Virtual Forum brought together experts on edge AI, foundation models, and generative AI, bridging connections that helps us chart a new frontier for AI. How can we deploy foundation models to the edge? And what becomes possible when we do?
Foundation models are general purpose deep learning models, trained on huge, unlabelled datasets, that can be applied to many tasks. Generative AI models are those designed to produce realistic data: from writing and images to speech, audio, and signals. Edge AI is the deployment of AI to physical devices, where digital hardware meets the real world.
This Forum reviewed the state-of-the-art at the intersection of these fast-evolving fields. It showcased the potentially transformative impacts that foundation models can bring to the edge—including in hardware, software, tooling, applications, and AI design methodologies.
