Amazon says its AI chips will work with popular coding language, challenging Nvidia

By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 19 (Reuters) Amazon.com is introducing a new tool that allows its custom AI chips to run code written in ​the most popular AI coding language without modification, ‌seeking to erode the advantage that underpins Nvidia s dominance in the AI computing market. TorchNeuron lets developers run code written in a language called PyTorch on Amazon s Trainium AI chips ‌with ​a single configuration change and no ⁠rewriting needed, according to ⁠Amazon s Annapurna Labs chip unit. Amazon, which plans to announce the software at a developer conference in Silicon Valley on Monday, said the software will ​be publicly released as a free and open-source offering. PyTorch, the open-source framework stewarded by Meta, is ⁠used by most AI developers. ⁠Nvidia has spent more than a ​decade on its software tool called Cuda that makes PyTorch ​code run well on Nvidia chips. Other cloud ‌computing players such as Google, which also has its own custom AI chips, are also wo