AMD strengthens AI capabilities with acquisition of Nod.ai

AMD has announced that it will acquire the open-source Kannadian AI platform Nod.ai. With this acquisition, AMD aims to strengthen its AI software resources and drive developments in this area. AMD’s recent acquisitions of startups indicate that the company has increased intentions to enter the AI industry. It is widely known that AMD and NVIDIA are in a technology race, especially in the field of AI.

Both companies are striving to improve their software capabilities to ultimately increase the resulting the computing power. However, AMD is still lagging in this area and NVIDIA is currently the dominant force in the market. With the acquisition of Nod.ai, AMD wants to strengthen its software resources and better challenge its competitors. It remains to be seen how this acquisition will affect the market and whether AMD will be able to become dangerous to NVIDIA in any way.

The acquisition of Nod.ai is expected to significantly enhance our ability to provide AI customers with open software that allows them to easily deploy highly performant AI models tuned for AMD hardware.

The addition of the talented Nod.ai team accelerates our ability to advance open-source compiler technology and enable portable, high-performance AI solutions across the AMD product portfolio. Nod .ai’s technologies are already widely deployed in the cloud, at the edge and across a broad range of end point devices today.

-AMD’s SVP AI Vamsi Boppana

This acquisition will help expand AMD’s AI arsenal and enable the company to build on its existing products. Nod.ai is known for its powerful machine learning distribution mechanism, which the company calls “SHARK.” This automation software eliminates the need for manual optimization and contributes to “rapid” deployment of AI models. With the acquisition of Nod.ai, AMD will have access to this mechanism and will be able to integrate it with its existing products such as AMD CDNA, XDNA, RDNA and the “Zen” architectures.

The integration of Nod.ai’s SHARK mechanism could allow AMD to bring its own AI products to market faster and more efficiently. The automation software should shorten development time and improve the performance of AI models. This could ultimately help AMD become more competitive in the AI space and further strengthen its position as a leading supplier of processors and graphics cards. Overall, the acquisition of Nod.ai is certainly an important step for AMD to strengthen its position in the AI space. We are excited to see what innovations AMD will present in the future based on this technology.

Source: AMD