Google has joined Amazon in attacking Nvidia’s stronghold with AI app developers
Google has joined Amazon in releasing a developer tool that makes it easy for PyTorch users to move their apps off Nvidia GPUs.
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Google announced an open-source version of PyTorch called TorchTPU that allows AI applications to run on Google's AI chips instead of Nvidia's chips, which currently dominate the industry because most AI apps are built to run on them by default. PyTorch is a popular toolkit used by an estimated 85% of AI applications for building and training AI models. Google's move follows a similar announcement from Amazon, which released its own PyTorch version to work with Amazon's AI chips, as both companies are attempting to reduce Nvidia's stronghold on the AI industry. Google differentiated its approach by partnering with several AI development platforms to ensure compatibility and by creating additional tools to help developers migrate their applications to Google's chips and cloud services.
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