Meta launches AI software tools to ease switching between Nvidia, AMD chips


FILE PHOTO A logo of Meta Platforms Inc. is seen at its booth at the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris France June 17 2022. REUTERSBenoit Tessier

FILE PHOTO: A logo of Meta Platforms Inc. is seen at its booth, at the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups, at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, France June 17, 2022. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

(Reuters) -Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc said on Monday it has launched a new set of free software tools for artificial intelligence applications that could make it easier for developers to switch back and forth between different underlying chips.

Meta's new open-source AI platform is based on an open-source machine learning framework called PyTorch, and can help code run up to 12 times faster on Nvidia Corp's flagship A100 chip or up to four times faster on Advanced Micro Devices Inc's MI250 chip, it said.

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