Amazon says its AI chips will work with popular coding language, challenging Nvidia
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- ✓Amazon will launch software on Monday that lets developers run PyTorch code on its Trainium AI chips.
- ✓This move challenges Nvidia by simplifying the process for users.
- ✓Colin Brace said, "This has been about meeting customers where they're at." Many early customers already use the tool to get cost savings.
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TorchNeuron lets developers run code written in a language called PyTorch on Amazon's Trainium AI chips with a single configuration change and no rewriting needed, according to Amazon's Annapurna Labs chip unit.
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Amazon, which plans to announce the software at a developer conference in Silicon Valley on Monday, said the software will be publicly released as a free and open-source offering.
Colin Brace, vice president of software for Annapurna Labs, said the move was aimed at reducing the number of steps AI developers must take to try Amazon's in-house chips.
"This has been about meeting customers where they're at," he told Reuters in an interview.
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