The young firm Sigopt Inc had been early structured around building an optimization platform that could be used to run modeling and simulations (two key applications of AI tech) in a better way. With a very small SBIR footprint - winning an AFWERX SBIR project only weeks before - in late October 2020 it was announced that intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) would acquire SigOpt â a San Francisco-based provider of a platform optimizing artificial intelligence (AI) software models at scale. With a very young team, the small firm's AI software technologies had quickly established a good reputation for delivering productivity and performance gains across hardware and software parameters, use cases and workloads in deep learning, machine learning and data analytics. At the time of the acqusiion it was suggested that Intel planned to use SigOptâs software technologies across Intelâs AI hardware products to help accelerate, amplify and scale Intelâs AI software solution offerings to deve
