AMD announced this week the acquisition of Brium, a startup specialized in AI software optimization. The goal is double: Promote an open source the IA ecosystem and reduce the current NVIDIA domain in accelerators for artificial intelligence systems.
Brium It is a startup that develops Automatic learning applications To facilitate the inference of AI, the process that a training model uses to draw conclusions of new data, in various hardware options. Basically, Brium can help adapt the AI software so that it works with hardware different from what could have been originally designed.
In the press release, AMD explained that the acquisition will contribute to its commitment to «Build an ecosystem of High -performance AI software that empowers developers and drives innovation ». This is the fourth strategic acquisition of AMD in the last two years to boost its e -ia ecosystem after the purchases of Silo AI (in July 2024), Nod.AI (October 2023) and Mipsology (August 2023).
Although the impulse of open source AI is interesting since these models are key to the technological industry, it seems clear that it is also intended to help AMD overcome one of its greatest obstacles: A large percentage of AI software is being designed for NVIDIA hardware and with it increasing the dependence of a single supplier.
In recent years, the hardware industry has advanced a lot to offer viable alternatives to NVIDIA hardware for the inference on the server side. Solutions such as AMD instinct GPUs offer great performance, but it is still a challenge to take advantage of it in practice, since workloads usually adjust to a large extent taking into account NVIDIA accelerators.
The purchase of Brium is aimed at solving the problem, facilitating the inference of efficient models in various hardware architectures. The details of the purchase operation have not been commented.
