AMD’s hopes to boost its AI-boosting software portfolio with the purchase of the $36.5m-rated Nod.ai
AMD is tapping into the power of open source with its acquisition of Nod.ai, which has developed a portfolio of tools and systems to boost the deployment of AI applications on the company’s hardware.
Nvidia’s compute unified device architecture (CUDA) software has become the industry standard for GPU workloads – but AMD is hoping to challenge this dominance with its own open source alternatives.
CUDA is closed source, whereas AMD’s use of software like Radeon open compute and now Nod.ai’s platforms, including its SHARK software – poses an alternative means for businesses to optimize AI deployment.Nvidia vs AMD is the new Windows vs Linux
The ten-year-old firm, which was valued recently at $36.
