Summer updates from Coral

Coral's summer updates reveal significant enhancements and new partnerships aimed at advancing IoT and machine learning capabilities on their devices. The open-source release of the Edge TPU runtime on GitHub now allows for broader platform compatibility, including ARMv7 and RISC-V, and facilitates integration into customized build pipelines. Windows drivers for Mini PCIe and M.2 accelerators have been introduced, enabling prototyping and production on the Microsoft platform. The ML software stack has seen updates like the Model Pipelining API and new embedding extractor models for EfficientNet, enhancing on-device backpropagation and classification retraining capabilities. Coral's collaboration with balena supports AI deployment at the edge, streamlining fleet management and security for ML-enabled devices. Additionally, the release of the BodyPix model expands real-time, privacy-conscious segmentation capabilities, demonstrated through applications like Smart Social Distancing. The new Mendel Linux (5.0 Eagle) release also offers stability and compatibility improvements, further supporting development on Coral's Dev Board and SoM.