AMD acquires Nod.ai to boost open AI software capabilities
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In a significant move to strengthen its open AI software competencies, AMD has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Nod.ai. Speaking about the acquisition, Vamsi Boppana, the Senior Vice President of the Artificial Intelligence Group at AMD, elaborated on the anticipated impact of this new partnership. Nod.ai’s technologies are already widely deployed in the cloud, at the edge and across a broad range of end point devices today.” Nod.ai, an innovative software firm, has distinguished itself in the AI domain. These models are compatible with an extensive portfolio of data centre, edge, and client platforms powered by AMDs advanced architectures such as CDNA, XDNA, RDNA and “Zen”. Reflecting on their journey and the ethos of the company, Anush Elangovan, the co-founder and CEO of Nod.ai, said, “At Nod.ai, we are a team of engineers focused on problem-solving — quickly – and moving at pace in an industry of constant change to develop solutions for the next set of problems.” He expressed optimism about the merger and highlighted their significant contributions, saying, “Our journey as a company has cemented our role as the primary maintainer and major contributor to some of the worlds most important AI repositories, including SHARK, Torch-MLIR and OpenXLA/IREE code generation technology.
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