Amazon is taking its biggest shot at Nvidia yet with new TorchNeuron dev tool
On Monday, Amazon Web Services released a tool called TorchNeuron that lets AI startups easily move their AI apps onto Amazon’s AI chip, Trainium. In doing so, Amazon is also taking a direct stab at the the software advantage that has helped Nvidia become the default hardware choice for AI apps, and spurred its rise as AI hardware provider of choice.
TorchNeuron works with PyTorch, a free, open-source toolkit that developers use to build, train, and run AI models. It lets AI apps written with PyTorch run on Trainium by changing just one line of configuration, according to Amazon — no code rewrite required.
Amazon says about 85% of AI apps are written with PyTorch. Facebook originally developed it, but since 2022, it has been part of the Linux Foundation, which maintains open-source projects. Nvidia has spent years ensuring its CUDA software — the software infrastructure that allows apps to...
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