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Amazon is taking its biggest shot at Nvidia yet with new TorchNeuron dev tool

Amazon is taking its biggest shot at Nvidia yet with new TorchNeuron dev tool
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Amazon is launching a new development tool called TorchNeuron to break Nvidia's hold on PyTorch and encourage developers to run AI apps on alternative chips, including its own.

Key points

  • •Amazon aims to break Nvidia's dominance in the free PyTorch toolkit used for building most AI apps.
  • •The goal is to enable the PyTorch environment to support alternative chips.
  • •The company seeks to increase the number of developers running AI applications on alternative chips, including Amazon's own.
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