Bitcoin Mining Giant Bitmain Launches Deep Learning AI Hardware

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Beijing-headquartered Bitmain, the world’s largest Bitcoin mining hardware producer, today announced its first products for accelerating artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

Earlier this year Finance Magnates exclusively reported that Bitmain decided to enter the AI market after we visited the offices of Bitmaintech Israel – the company’s first R&D center outside of China. Today the head of Bitmaintech Israel, Gadi Glikberg, told us: “We are very proud to be part of the software development effort of the Sophon products. Our AI researchers are focused on creating computer vision and NLP solutions that are optimized for the Sophon platform.”

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