Massive tech firms try to eradicate the software program options that helped Nvidia dominate the AI market. in line with Reutersa bunch made up of Intel, Google, Arm, Qualcomm, Samsung and different know-how firms that’s creating an open supply software program suite that forestalls AI builders from being locked into Nvidia’s proprietary know-how, permitting their code to run on any machine and with any chip.
The group, referred to as the Unified Accelerator Basis (UXL), stated. Reuters Technical particulars of the venture ought to attain “mature” standing by the second half of this yr, though a ultimate launch goal has not been set. The venture presently contains the Intel-developed open OneAPI customary to eradicate necessities similar to particular coding languages, code bases, and different instruments from tying builders to utilizing a particular structure, similar to Nvidia’s CUDA platform.
Nvidia turned the primary chipmaker to succeed in a market worth of $2 trillion final month, having seen fast progress after specializing in {hardware} to energy AI fashions, such because the H100 and upcoming H200 GPUs. Nvidia’s chips, which stop builders from utilizing Nvidia’s CUDA structure, outperform something presently produced by different chipmakers, however overwhelming demand has brought on merchandise to turn out to be scarce whereas rival firms proceed to develop their very own alternate options. In the course of the 2023 Computex keynote, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated that 4 million builders use the Cuda computing mannequin.
Whereas UXL says the venture will initially purpose to open up choices for AI and HPC purposes, the group finally plans to help Nvidia {hardware} and code as nicely. UXL is looking for assist from add-on chip producers and cloud computing firms similar to Microsoft and Amazon to make sure the answer might be deployed on any chip or machine. Microsoft, which was not particularly included within the UXL alliance, was rumored to have teamed up with AMD final yr to develop various AI chips that might problem Nvidia’s efficient monopoly within the business.