Amazon challenges Nvidia’s software advantage with new tool for its own AI chips

Amazon’s TorchNeuron sits between PyTorch and the company’s Trainium chips, supporting developers’ existing code. (Amazon Image) A new software tool from Amazon aims to make switching from Nvidia to the company’s own AI chips about as simple as changing a setting. The software, dubbed TorchNeuron, runs code written in PyTorch, the open-source framework used by many AI developers, on Amazon’s Trainium chips.