Alibaba open-sources its chip software, following similar plays from Huawei and Moore Threads, as Chinese GPU makers try to break the dominance of Nvidia's CUDA (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)

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Alibaba open-sourced its AI chip software stack, advancing China’s effort to build CUDA alternatives for domestic GPU ecosystems.

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<a href="https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3361048/alibaba-targets-nvidias-dominant-software-ecosystem-open-source-ai-stack"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260718/i18.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260718/p18#a260718p18" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Ann Cao / <a href="http://www.scmp.com/">South China Morning Post</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3361048/alibaba-targets-nvidias-dominant-software-ecosystem-open-source-ai-stack">Alibaba open-sources its chip software, following similar plays from Huawei and Moore Threads, as Chinese GPU makers try to break the dominance of Nvidia's CUDA</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; The firm's chip unit T-Head aims to lower migration barriers to Zhenwu AI computing architectures, following similar initiatives by Huawei and Moore Threads</p>