| ▲ | ants_everywhere 4 days ago |
| Or one of the cloud providers who doesn't want to pay lock-in prices when they'd rather pay commodity prices |
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| ▲ | Twirrim 4 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Not sure cloud providers will care, all the costs get passed onto the customers. There's already far more demand for GPUs than can be met by the supply chain, too. If they were sitting on excess stock, or struggling to sell, sure. |
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| ▲ | coredog64 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The cloud providers all have their own Nvidia alternatives. Having worked with more than one, I would rate them not much better than AMD when it comes to software. |
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| ▲ | topspin 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| How feasible is this for a cloud operation(s)? I imagine this work requires close collaboration with the architects and proprietary knowledge about the design. |
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| ▲ | ants_everywhere 4 days ago | parent [-] | | it seems feasible, it's more a matter of how much of a priority it is. I follow Google most closely. They design and manufacture their own accelerators. AWS I know manufactures its own CPUs, but I don't know if they're working on or already have an AI accelerator. Several of the big players are working on OpenXLA, which is designed to abstract and commoditize the GPU layer: https://openxla.org/xla OpenXLA mentions: > Alibaba, Amazon Web Services, AMD, Apple, Arm, Google, Intel, Meta, and NVIDIA | | |
| ▲ | mdaniel 4 days ago | parent [-] | | > AWS I know manufactures its own CPUs, but I don't know if they're working on or already have an AI accelerator I believe those are the Inferentia: https://aws.amazon.com/ai/machine-learning/inferentia/ > AWS Inferentia chips are designed by AWS to deliver high performance at the lowest cost in Amazon EC2 for your deep learning (DL) and generative AI inference applications but I don't know this second if they're supported by the major frameworks, or what I also didn't recall about https://aws.amazon.com/ai/machine-learning/trainium/ until I was looking up that page, so it seems they're trying to have a competitor to the TPUs just naming them dumb, because AWS > AWS Trainium chips are a family of AI chips purpose built by AWS for AI training and inference to deliver high performance while reducing costs. | | |
| ▲ | ants_everywhere 4 days ago | parent [-] | | thanks this is useful! > have a competitor to the TPUs just naming them dumb, because AWS I kind of like "trainium" although "inferentia" I could take or leave. At least it's nice that the names tell you the intended use case. |
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| ▲ | pjmlp 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| With what software though? |
