Intel, the AI company

A pioneer, but not a leader.

November 12, 2025

Jon Peddie

Once upon a time in the late ’90s, when AI was still thawing from its winter nap, two IBM dreamers in Raleigh spun up Saffron Technology—quietly planting seeds for brainy computers. Fast forward to 2015, and Intel swoops in like a friendly giant, scooping up Saffron to birth the clever Natural Intelligence Platform. A year later, they adopt Dublin’s Movidius (born 2005), turning its zippy Myriad VPUs into edge-AI superstars. Then comes Nervana (2014) and Habana (2016), both gobbled up to fuel training beasts like Gaudi. Add Mobileye’s car-smarts and Loihi’s brain-mimicking magic, and Intel is building an AI family

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