June 30 (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence chips from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) are about 80% as fast as those from Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O), with a future path to matching their performance, according a Friday report by an AI software firm.
Nvidia dominates the market for the powerful chips that are used to create ChatGPT and other AI services that have swept through the technology industry in recent months.
That prompted MosaicML, an AI startup acquired for $1.3 billion earlier this week, to conduct a test comparing between AI chips from AMD and Nvidia.
Tang said that MosaicML used its tools, the PyTorch and AMD software to train a large language model without having to make any changes to its code base.
If developers can find AMD's chips at the right price, "you can already switch to these today they're essentially interchangeable" with Nvidia chips, Tang said.
Persons:
MosaicML, Hanlin Tang, Tang, OpenAI, Stephen Nellis, Aurora Ellis
Organizations:
Micro Devices, Nvidia Corp, Nvidia, AMD, MosaicML, Meta, Thomson
Locations:
San Francisco