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Facebook parent Meta said on Monday it has launched a new set of free software tools for artificial intelligence applications that could make it easier for developers to switch back and forth between different underlying chips. Once developers tailor their code for Nvidia chips, it is difficult to run it on other GPUs. Meta said the software is designed to easily swap between chips without being locked in. The unified GPU back-end support gives deep learning developers more hardware vendor choices with minimal migration costs.It’s a testament to the importance of software, particularly for deploying neural networks in machine learning for inference,” said David Kanter, a founder of MLCommons, an independent group that measures AI speed.
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But just as important as the speed boost is the flexibility the sofware can provide, Meta said in a blog post.
However, once developers tailor their code for Nvidia chips, it is difficult to run it on graphics processing units, or GPUs, from Nvidia competitors like AMD.
Meta said the software is designed to easily swap between chips without being locked in.
“The unified GPU back-end support gives deep learning developers more hardware vendor choices with minimal migration costs,” Meta said in its blog post.
Kanter added that this new Meta AI platform would be “good for customer choice.”
