Alibaba open-sources its AI chip software stack at WAIC, targeting Nvidia’s CUDA lock-in

Alibaba’s chip design unit T-Head announced at the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Saturday that it is open-sourcing SAIL, the full software stack for its Zhenwu series of AI chips. The move is designed to lower migration barriers for developers currently locked into Nvidia’s CUDA ecosystem. T-Head said programmers can adapt SAIL to mainstream […] This story continues at The Next Web