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Why it matters: Nvidia introduced CUDA in 2006 as a proprietary API and software layer that eventually became the key to unlocking the immense parallel computing power of GPUs. CUDA plays a major role ...

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As the AI arms race intensifies and the costs of vendor lock-in rise, a new class of challengers is stepping into the ring to loosen Nvidia’s grip on AI computing. Legacy tech companies such as AMD ...

Apple’s MLX machine learning framework, originally designed for Apple Silicon, is getting a CUDA backend, which is a pretty big deal. Here’s why. The work is being led by developer @zcbenz on GitHub ...

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