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Amazon is taking its biggest shot at Nvidia yet with new TorchNeuron dev tool

TorchNeuron targets Nvidia's dominance over PyTorch AI workflows

By GPU Data Hub Desk · GPU Data Hub·Editorial standards·

Amazon has unveiled a new developer utility named TorchNeuron to loosen Nvidia's entrenched grip on the PyTorch framework. The cloud hyperscaler hopes the software will persuade engineers to run artificial intelligence workloads on non-Nvidia hardware, including its proprietary custom processors.

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