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New chips for machine intelligence

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Re: New chips for machine intelligence

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Software. Software. Software. Just two companies, Google and NVIDIA, have publicly launched a viable service or software stack. Just two companies have successfully written a "sufficiently advanced compiler". Just two companies actually have a product. And Google refuses to step into the arena and actually compete with NVIDIA. Man, what a time we live in. And no, AMD doesn't count. ROCm is a mess.

Is there a good summary of the state of art in this field of software infra for ML?

Re: New chips for machine intelligence

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post #45

This list is missing mobile phone chips that are specially designed for Deep Learning.

Existing mobile phone chips are designed for inference, not training. The list is explicitly restricted to chips that are designed for training.

there is lot of training happening on the edge (mobile devices) as well, look up 'federated learning' https://medium.com/syncedreview/federated-learning-the-futur...

Re: New chips for machine intelligence

#54

Software. Software. Software. Just two companies, Google and NVIDIA, have publicly launched a viable service or software stack. Just two companies have successfully written a "sufficiently advanced compiler". Just two companies actually have a product. And Google refuses to step into the arena and actually compete with NVIDIA. Man, what a time we live in. And no, AMD doesn't count. ROCm is a mess.

Disclaimer: am a co-founder of this company

Applied Brain Research has software called Nengo (www.nengo.ai) explicitly for developing neural network models and compiling them to different backends, including CPUs, GPUs, and neuromorphic hardware (Intel's Loihi, Spinnaker, Spinnaker 2, BrainDrop). It's been battle tested for over 10 years of developing models, built the world's largest functional brain model (https://bit.ly/2VNGgSX), integrates deep learning and spiking neural networks. Would be interested to hear your thoughts on it.

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