AMD to acquire Nod.ai to boost open source AI software capabilities
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The acquisition, whose financial details have not been disclosed, is expected to bring AMD a team that can help accelerate the deployment of AI-based offerings optimized for the company’s Instinct data center accelerators, Ryzen AI processors, EPYC processors, Versal SoCs, and Radeon GPUs, AMD said in a statement. “We leverage machine learning-based methods (reinforcement learning in particular) for code generation and auto-scheduling of compute and communication over a heterogeneous set of resources (such as CPUs, GPUs, Accelerators etc),” a brief description on Nod.ai’s portal read. “The acquisition of Nod.ai is expected to significantly enhance our ability to provide AI customers with open software that allows them to easily deploy highly performant AI models tuned for AMD hardware,” Vamsi Boppana, senior vice president of Artificial Intelligence Group at AMD, said in a statement. The Mountain View, California-based startup, which was founded in 2013 by Anush Elangovan and Harsh Menon, provides AI repositories, such as the SHARK Machine Learning Distribution that is built on LLVM, MLIR, and OpenXLA’s IREE. The compiler-based automation software capabilities of Nod.ai’s SHARK software reduce the need for manual optimization and the time required to deploy highly performant AI models to run across a broad portfolio of data center, edge, and client platforms powered by AMD processors and architectures, the startup said in a statement.
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