Main tech firms are trying to get rid of software program benefits which have helped Nvidia dominate the unreal intelligence market. In keeping with Reuters, a gaggle fashioned by Intel, Google, Arm, Qualcomm, Samsung, and different tech firms is creating an open-source software program suite that stops AI builders from being locked into Nvidia’s proprietary tech, permitting their code to run on any machine and with any chip.
The group, referred to as The Unified Acceleration Basis (UXL), instructed Reuters that technical particulars for the mission ought to attain a “mature” state by the second half of this yr, although a ultimate launch goal wasn’t given. The mission presently contains the OneAPI open normal Intel developed to get rid of necessities like particular coding languages, code bases, and different instruments from tying builders into utilizing particular structure, reminiscent of Nvidia’s CUDA platform.
Nvidia turned the primary chipmaker to hit a $2 trillion market capitalization final month, having skilled speedy progress after specializing in {hardware} for powering AI fashions, like its H100 and upcoming H200 GPUs. These Nvidia chips, which lock builders into utilizing Nvidia’s CUDA structure, are superior to something presently produced by different chipmakers, however the explosive demand has induced shortage whereas rival firms proceed creating their very own options. Through the firm’s 2023 Computex keynote, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated that 4 million builders had been utilizing the Cuda computing mannequin.
Whereas UXL says the mission will initially goal to open up choices for AI apps and high-performance computing purposes, the group plans to finally help Nvidia’s {hardware} and code, too. UXL is looking for support from extra chipmakers and cloud-computing firms like Microsoft and Amazon to make sure the answer will be deployed on any chip or {hardware}. Microsoft, which is notably not included within the UXL coalition, was rumored to have teamed up with AMD final yr to develop different AI chips that would problem Nvidia’s efficient monopoly over the trade.