Mihira licenses Intel’s Endgame AI to accelerate development of its own AI systems

Raja Koduri, former executive vice president of Intel, is founding AI startup Mihira with the goal of making computing power accessible to everyone through Project Endgame. Mihira AI will license software from Intel’s “abandoned” Project Endgame, originally considered a breakthrough in the cloud services industry. Koduri previously served as chief architect for standalone GPUs at Intel, focusing on graphics and technology advancements. His work spanned AI, graphics, and processor technology to support Intel’s Zettascale initiatives and drive memory and various architectures. In March 2023, he left Intel to found Mihira.

Although details about Raja Koduri’s approach to his new venture have been sparse, we’ve finally seen what’s been “cooking” over the past few months. In an interview with EE Times, Raja Koduri revealed that his company is focused on building a “cross-generational” data center architecture that focuses on both client and consumer applications. His company aims to harness the potential of AI and actually bring it to key areas of the industry to meet the needs of every industry.

Raja Koduri revealed that the company’s resources are focused on building “three layers” of services: CPU computation for rendering applications, heterogeneous AI accelerators, and the delivery of gaming workloads. That’s not the exciting part here, as Koduri revealed that Mihira wants to focus on doing “data center orchestration” by effectively managing workloads everywhere. The company is apparently prioritizing building its software resources so that hardware deployments are more efficient.

Raja Koduri’s experience at Intel will be vital to Mihira’s success. The executive revealed that his startup has already licensed Intel’s Endgame project, which is a “unified services layer that leverages computing resources” for all workloads. In addition to that, Koduri reveals that Mihira’s own IP resources will be focused on optimizing Project Endgame. This could be critical for the company.

It’s a good starting point: “There are some very interesting things we built there [at Intel],” he said. “It had to be real-time scheduling under certain constraints, which gives us some interesting advantages for serving AI models.

-Raja Koduri via EE Times

Raja Koduri’s goal with Mihira is to make artificial intelligence accessible to everyone, especially those involved in content creation. He believes AI is the way to reduce the gap created by individual “skills” while providing sufficient computational resources for those who are excluded.

Mihira infrastructure will give them access to state-of-the-art … ray-tracing GPUs, so they are not constrained by compute. AI models will also be available to them. If we can get access to compute and tools to everybody, there is so much talent to tap into

Koduri and Mihira have big ambitions and are looking to the future. The official representative has revealed that the first version of his company’s hardware and software resources are expected to be launched by the end of this year, with an expansion to the business world next year.

Source: EE Times