AMD has snapped up Nod.ai as part of a cunning plan to improve its growing AI capabilities using its SHARK product.
The compiler-based automation software capabilities of Nod.ai’s SHARK software is designed to reduce the need for manual optimisation and the time required to deploy AI models to run across a broad portfolio of data centre, edge, and client platforms.
The company says that the deal should enhance the deployment of AI solutions for its instinct datacentre accelerators, Ryzen AI processors, EPYC processors, Versal SoCs and Radeon GPUs.
The agreement follows the company’s AI growth strategy centres on an open software ecosystem that lowers the barriers of entry for customers through developer tools, libraries and models.
AMD acquired Mipsology earlier this year to ramp up AI inference rivalry with Nvidia.
AMD VP Vamsi Boppana said that 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,” he said,
Nod CEO Anush Elangovan said his outfit’s journey as a company has cemented our role as the primary maintainer and major contributor to some of the world’s most important AI repositories, including SHARK, Torch-MLIR and OpenXLA/IREE code generation technology.
“By joining forces with AMD, we will bring this expertise to a broader range of customers on a global scale.”
