Amazon launches TorchNeuron software to run PyTorch code on Trainium chips with simple configuration change, challenging Nvidia's AI dominance; opens public beta and releases open-source tool at PyTorch Conference in San Jose.

Amazon challenges Nvidia’s software advantage with new tool for its own AI chips

Amazon’s TorchNeuron sits between PyTorch and the company’s Trainium chips, supporting developers’ existing code. (Amazon Image) A new software tool from Amazon aims to make switching from Nvidia to the company’s own AI chips about as simple as changing a setting. The software, dubbed TorchNeuron, runs code written in PyTorch, the open-source framework used by many AI developers, on Amazon’s Trainium chips. It has been in private beta since late last year, and Amazon said Monday that it’s openin...