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Google has joined Amazon in attacking Nvidia’s stronghold with AI app developers

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Amazon released TorchNeuron, its own version of PyTorch that allows AI applications to run on Trainium chips and AWS.

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On Tuesday, Google announced that TorchTPU, its long-awaited version of PyTorch, is now available as an open-source project. With this, Google joins Amazon in trying to break Nvidia's stranglehold on the AI industry, where most AI apps are written by default to run on Nvidia's chips, or GPUs. PyTorch is the popular open-source toolkit that AI app developers and startups use to build, train, and run AI models. It is, by some accounts, used by 85% of the AI apps. PyTorch was originally developed by Meta (then Facebook) in 2016, long before the world had an inkling that LLMs would change the world. At the time, Nvidia's GPUs were already the standard hardware for AI research, so many of PyTorch's features were built to work specifically with them. In 2022, Meta turned PyTorch over to the Linux Foundation, a nonprofit that manages many important open source projects. Google's version, TorchTPU, lets AI apps run on Google's AI chips, called Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). It also makes it easy to move existing PyTorch apps to TPUs and, therefore, to Google Cloud. Developers can do this with a simple configuration change and no re-writing of their apps. Amazon made a similar announcement Monday, when it released its own version of PyTorch, called TorchNeuron. TorchNeuron allows AI apps to be ported to Amazon's homegrown AI chip, Trainium, and to AWS with no rewriting. Amazon also...

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Oct 19, 2026

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