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Amazon is taking its biggest shot at Nvidia yet with new TorchNeuron dev tool
Amazon wants to break Nvidia’s hold on PyTorch, the free toolkit used to build most AI apps, so that more developers run their apps on alternative chips like its own.
On Monday, Amazon Web Services released a tool called TorchNeuron that lets AI startups easily move their AI apps onto Amazon’s AI chip, Trainium. In doing so, Amazon is also taking a direct stab at the software advantage that has helped Nvidia become the default hardware choice for AI apps and spurred its rise as AI hardware provider of choice.
TorchNeuron works with PyTorch, a free, open source toolkit that developers use to build, train, and run AI models. It lets AI apps written with PyTorch run on Trainium by changing just one line of configuration, according to Amazon, no code rewrite required.
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