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On Monday, Meta, Facebook's parent company, announced the launch of a new artificial intelligence free software platform that supports both NVIDIA and AMD chips, making it easy for developers to develop artificial intelligence programs to switch back and forth between hardware systems based on different chips.

Meta's latest AI open source software builds on PyTorch's open source machine learning framework and can speed up code on NVIDIA's flagship A100 chip by 12 times and AMD's MI250 chip by 4 times.

Meta said in a blog post that the AI software platform not only speeds up code, but also supports AI chips from different vendors.

Software development has become a key area for chipmakers to build developer ecosystems and use their own chips. Nvidia's CUDA, for example, is hugely popular.

However, after developers developed AI code based on Nvidia chips through CUDA, it was difficult to run on graphics image processing chips made by companies such as Nvidia competitor AMD. Meta said its latest AI platform allows developers to easily switch AI applications between hardware systems based on different chips.

Meta wrote in a blog post: "Unified GPU backend support minimizes application migration costs and helps deep learning app developers choose from a wider variety of hardware. "

Nvidia and AMD did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Meta's software is designed for a type of artificial intelligence called reasoning. In the reasoning process, developers make quick judgments about images by invoking machine learning algorithms that have been trained on large amounts of data.

"This is cross-platform software work, demonstrating the importance of software, especially deploying neural networks for reasoning in machine learning," said David Kanter, founder of MLCommons, a third-party group that measures AI processing speed.

Kanter adds that the new AI platform will "give customers more choice."

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