Alibaba open-sources its AI chip software stack at WAIC, targeting Nvidia's CUDA lock-in
Alibaba said 560,000 Zhenwu chips shipped to more than 400 customers will gain a public software layer to help developers move off Nvidia CUDA.
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China's Alibaba Releases CUDA Rival for Free... Seeking Software Independence. On the 18th, China's Alibaba abruptly opened its proprietary AI semiconductor chip driver software to the entire world. In response to Nvidia, which has dominated the global AI market not only with its AI chips but also with the CUDA software that drives them, China...
Alibaba open-sources its AI chip software stack at WAIC, targeting Nvidia's CUDA lock-in
Alibaba's T-Head unit open-sourced SAIL, the software stack for its Zhenwu AI chips, at WAIC. It follows Huawei's CANN open-sourcing and targets CUDA migration.
Alibaba open-sources its AI chip software stack at WAIC, targeting Nvidia’s CUDA lock-in
Alibaba's chip design unit T-Head announced at the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Saturday that it is open-sourcing SAIL, the full software stack for its Zhenwu series of AI chips. The move is designed to lower migration barriers for developers currently locked into Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem. T-Head said programmers can adapt SAIL to mainstream [ . . . ] This story continues at The Next Web
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