Intel has struck new collaborations with artificial intelligence AI companies to broaden its enterprise AI capabilities A press release on Tuesday Sept 4 said Chinese technology firm Baidu is working with Intel to combine their artificial intelligence and cloud technologies The companies plan to apply their initiatives to a range of industries including financial services FinServ and shipping Baidus Baidu Cloud solution will integrate Intels Xeon Scalable processors as well as Intels Math Kernel Library-Deep Neural Network technologies to develop financial technologies for banks in China According to the companies Baido is developing private financial clouds for an array of financial service providers including China Union Pay and AI Bank Those clouds run on Intel processors Baidu is leveraging Intel technology for solutions in other industries including video and shipping In the latter case Baidu Cloud is developing a solution for businesses to monitor trucking fleets in real time Intel AI video analysis technology will allow managers to monitor multiple trucks at once to provide real-time alerts of anomalous activity like items or waste falling from a vehicle Intel is collaborating with Baidu Cloud to deliver end-to-end AI solutions said Raejeanne Skillern Intel vice president of Data Center Group and general manager of its Cloud Service Provider Platform Group in a statement Adopting a new chip or optimizing a single framework is not enough to meet the demands of new AI workloads Whats required is systems-level integration with software optimization and Intel is enabling this through our expertise and extensive portfolio of AI technologies all in the name of helping our customers achieve their AI goals In another press release Tuesday Network-as-a-Service NaaS provider Netrolix announced plans to work with Intel at the Artificial Intelligence Conference this week held in San Francisco The company noted that it is using Intel chipsets because of their broad compatibility in the networking world the consistency in the Linux kernel across different chipsets and their ability to run x86 software explained Netrolix Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Osamah Ali in a statement Add to that the fact that Intel often offers chipsets with lower power consumption which help Netrolix with our Internet of Things IoT and unmanned aerial vehicles support and require nonstandard interfaces he continued