(Reuters) – Advanced Micro Devices’ artificial intelligence chip is about 80% faster than Nvidia’s and will match its performance in the future, the AI software company said in a report on Friday. It is said that there is a route.
Nvidia dominates the market for powerful chips used to create ChatGPT and other AI services that have taken the tech industry by storm in recent months. The popularity of these services is valued at over $1 trillion for Nvidia, leading to a chip shortage that NVIDIA says is working on a solution.
In the meantime, however, tech companies are looking for alternatives, hoping AMD will be a strong challenger. That’s why the AI startup MosaicML, which he acquired for $1.3 billion earlier this week, will conduct tests comparing AI chips from AMD and Nvidia.
MosaicML evaluated the AMD MI250 and Nvidia A100. Both are one generation behind their flagship chips, but are still in high demand.
MosaicML is largely a new version of AMD software released late last year and a new version of the open source software behind the meta-platform called PyTorch released in March that will allow AMD’s chips to outperform Nvidia chips. found that 80% of the
Hanlin Tang, chief technology officer of MosaicML, said that with further software updates AMD is currently developing, the company believes its MI250 chip should match the performance of Nvidia’s A100.
“For most (machine learning) chip companies, software is the Achilles heel,” Tang said, adding that AMD did not pay MosaicML for the research. “Where AMD does really well is on the software side.”
Tang said MosaicML used the company’s tool PyTorch and AMD software to train large-scale language models without changing the codebase. If developers can find AMD’s chips at the right price, Tang said, they can switch to these already today because they are “intrinsically compatible” with Nvidia chips.
MosaicML sells software that allows companies to easily create AI systems within their own data centers, rather than paying for access to systems from providers such as ChatGPT creator OpenAI. The company said it conducted a survey to show customers had non-Nvidia chip options.
Nvidia declined to comment, and AMD did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
(Reporting by Stephen Nellis in San Francisco; Editing by Aurora Ellis)
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