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Re:AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M by breggles on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @10:49AM (#40927540)
"AMD is among several companies contributing to the development of an OpenAI-led rival to Cuda, called Triton, which would let AI developers switch more easily between chip providers. Meta, Microsoft and Intel have also worked on Triton."

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Re:AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M by singhrac on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @11:09AM (#40927768)
This is a bit misleading since Triton is a bit higher level than CUDA. But the idea is kind of right - there’s active development of AMD and Intel backends, and Pytorch is investing into Triton as well.
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