Rackspace Technology and Humen.Ai Collaborate to Streamline Artificial Intelligence-Powered Dance App
16 December 2020 - 3:05AM
Rackspace Technology™ (NASDAQ: RXT), a leading end-to-end
multicloud technology solutions company, today announced it has
worked with Humen.Ai, an Machine Learning (ML)-core company that
uses deep learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create
personalized interactive content, to rebuild Humen.Ai’s Sway: Magic
Dance iOS application, using serverless and machine learning
technologies to realize significant cost and functionality
improvements.
Humen.Ai partnered with Amazon Web Services™ (AWS) Premier
Consulting Partner, Onica, a Rackspace Technology company, to
improve its Sway app, which uses AI-powered motion filters to let
users visualize themselves conducting complex dance moves.
Rackspace Technology’s team of engineers quickly identified the
need for a stronger infrastructure foundation for rapid releases
and reduced infrastructure cost.
In just six weeks, Rackspace Technology replaced Humen.Ai’s
hand-built environment with Amazon Elastic Container Service
(Amazon ECS) with Spot Instances, reducing infrastructure costs by
up to 70%. The new application enables AI and production teams to
get app enhancements into users’ hands faster through lightweight,
containerized infrastructure.
“One of our top priorities on this project was cost savings. By
consolidating the 400 existing AWS instances to Amazon ECS with
Spot Instances, Humen.Ai’s infrastructure is now easier to manage
and operate,” said Tolga Tarhan, CTO of Rackspace Technology. “We
developed a lightweight AI infrastructure that now allows Humen.Ai
to manage all of the application’s features using only serverless
technologies. The newfound agility of this solution will take a
huge burden off of the Humen.Ai engineering team, allowing them to
focus their time on creating innovative new products.”
Prior to collaborating with Rackspace Technology’s engineering
team, the Sway: Magic Dance iOS application relied on 400 AWS G4
on-demand instances controlled by a complex system that was built
internally and drove up cost of operation. Rackspace Technology
took the application’s ability to quickly train models and
delivered a custom solution built on AWS. The solution was devised
to schedule Amazon ECS containers so that the application could
complete more AI tasks at the same time. The end results were
showcased during the app’s 2020 Superbowl launch in partnership
with Doritos.
“Working with Rackspace Technology’s engineers really helped us
scale our infrastructure to support our small team during our early
stages of growth,” said Tinghui Zhou, Co-founder and CEO of
Humen.Ai. “We’ve doubled, maybe even tripled, our throughput of
processing demands from our users. By working with Rackspace, we
have unlocked time and cost savings allowing us to prepare for
future expansions of our offerings to sports, TV, gaming and
movies. With significantly reduced cost savings, we can now
redirect funds to new ventures, like providing ways for users to
collaborate and share content within the app and improving the
app’s photorealism output with 3D-based perception for its skeleton
and scene-analysis ML models.”
In total, Rackspace Technology reimagined Humen.Ai’s iOS
application by implementing Amazon ECS™, Amazon ECR™, Spot ASG™
(containers on Amazon ECS), AWS Step Functions™ and AWS Lambda™
(serverless) for a more optimized and efficient experience.
About Rackspace TechnologyRackspace Technology
is a leading end-to-end multicloud technology services company. We
can design, build and operate our customers’ cloud environments
across all major technology platforms, irrespective of technology
stack or deployment model. We partner with our customers at every
stage of their cloud journey, enabling them to modernize
applications, build new products and adopt innovative
technologies.
About Humen.AiHumen.Ai, an ML-core company,
uses deep learning and AI to create personalized interactive
content. Its flagship app, Sway, allows users to create videos of
themselves performing motions captured from professional dancers,
athletes, martial artists, and more and share with friends.
Media ContactNatalie SilvaRackspace Corporate
Communicationspublicrelations@rackspace.com
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