AMD's CUDA Challenge

The software wager has been going on at AMD for some time now. And it is looking to take it a notch higher by betting on Nod.ai, a San Francisco-based open-source AI software firm.

This, however, is not the first time. In August, the company announced its acquisition of Mipsology, a French AI startup, which has also been a long-standing AMD partner, developing AI software for the chipmaker. 

RN, NVIDIA is slaying the hardware market only because of its CUDA prowess, and all of its rivals – AMD, Intel, etc. – are now mimicking the success of its software architecture for running AI workloads on GPUs. A majority are going the open-source route, unlike CUDA, which remains restricted to NVIDIA’s GPUs.