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AMD Joins New PyTorch Foundation as Founding Member

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AMD today announced it is joining the newly created PyTorch Foundation as a founding member. The foundation, which will be part of the non-profit Linux Foundation, will drive adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tooling by fostering and sustaining an ecosystem of open source projects with PyTorch, the Machine Learning (ML) software framework originally created and fostered by Meta.

As a founding member, AMD joins others in the industry to prioritize the continued growth of PyTorch's vibrant community. Supported by innovations such as the AMD ROCm open software platform, AMD Instinct accelerators, Adaptive SoCs and CPUs, AMD will help the PyTorch Foundation by working to democratize state-of-the-art tools, libraries and other components to make these ML innovations accessible to everyone.



"Open software is critical to advancing HPC, AI and ML research, and we're ready to bring our experience with open software platforms and innovation to the PyTorch foundation," said Brad McCredie, corporate vice president, Data Center and Accelerated Processing, AMD. "AMD Instinct accelerators and ROCm software power important HPC and ML sites around the world, from exascale supercomputers at research labs to major cloud deployments showcasing the convergence of HPC and AI/ML. Together with other foundation members, we will support the acceleration of science and research that can make a dramatic impact on the world."

"We are excited to have AMD join the PyTorch Foundation and bring its extensive expertise in HPC, AI and ML to our members," said Santosh Janardhan, VP, Infrastructure at Meta. "AMD has continued to support PyTorch with its integration on ROCm open software platform and has worked extensively with the open-source community and other foundation members to advance performance of ML and AI workloads. The collaborative support offered by AMD continues our engagement across broad industry initiatives for global impact."

AMD, Advancing AI and ML
AMD is uniquely positioned with its broad product and software portfolio to help customers and partners develop and deploy applications with multiple forms of AI from the cloud and enterprise, to the edge and endpoints. With a diverse set of hardware including AMD Instinct and Alveo accelerators, adaptive SoCs and CPUs, AMD can support a wide variety of pervasive AI and ML models, from small edge points to large scale out training and inference workloads.

AMD also works extensively with the AI open community to promote and extend machine and deep learning capabilities and optimizations. Vitis AI provides a comprehensive AI inference development platform for AMD adaptive SoCs and Alveo data center accelerators. Vitis AI plugs into common software developer tools and utilizes a rich set of optimized open-source libraries to empower software developers with machine learning acceleration as part of their software code.

The ROCm open software platform is constantly evolving to meet the needs of the AI/ML and HPC community. With the latest release of ROCm 5.0, developers have access to turn-key AI framework containers on AMD Infinity Hub, advanced tools, streamlined installation, and can expect to experience reduced kernel launch times and faster application performance. As well, with the latest PyTorch 1.12 release, AMD ROCm support has moved from beta to stable.

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but fostered by Meta... wtf am I reading? :roll:
 
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but fostered by Meta... wtf am I reading? :roll:
Giant entities (megacorporations?) consist of many, independent factions which do not necessarily agree on things - and each act out different things into the world.

Some factions end up being destructive and exploitative, others are perfectly benign and aren't even "secretly in cahoots with the others" and pretending to be "good guys" - they are actually benign, and consist of (often disgruntled) people.

This concept is well illustrated in an old Russian game featuring great writing called Rage of Mages 2: Necromancer, if you need it presented in a story to get a slightly less abstract grasp on a concept like this.
 
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but fostered by Meta... wtf am I reading? :roll:
The beginning of Skynet.:) with a heavy dose of the greed coefficient applied in a Machiavellian theme and for AMD a way to mitigate the lead that Nvidia has in this space.
 
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but fostered by Meta... wtf am I reading? :roll:
Capitalism. We are here to help, honest!

And before anyone gets on my back: no, I don't have any better social-economic system. Just reality lol.
 
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"AMD is uniquely positioned with its broad product and software portfolio to help customers and partners develop and deploy applications with multiple forms of AI from the cloud and enterprise, to the edge and endpoints."
I think this sounds like someone just received their Marketing Degree and is putting it to good use. :p
 

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The article mentions AMD like 20 times.

Meanwhile, the official announcement:
With a governing board of leaders from AMD, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Meta, Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA...
 
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is it just a free way for meta to get software on the cheap? since its open source and mostly volunteer based? then they can use the code in Meta products for financial gain? or is there something I am misunderstanding?
No, hard as it might be to believe, this is actually something good that Facebook did. Obviously, they released it to get mindshare and attract researchers and developers to Facebook. They also targeted Python users, and that made the bar of entry for ML, machine learning, models lower. PyTorch and Tensorflow are the two most popular frameworks for building machine learning models.
 

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No, hard as it might be to believe, this is actually something good that Facebook did. PyTorch and Tensorflow are the two most popular frameworks for building machine learning models.

that's nice to hear, cool
 
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So the code that will kill the human race for being parasites started as open source, good to know.
 
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So the code that will kill the human race for being parasites started as open source, good to know.
It uses Pie to Torch the planet, is pretty much my read of it.

And we all know the cake is a lie
 
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Hope this means PyTorch ROCm will soon be properly supported on Windows. I hate having to use my GTX 1070 when I have two AMD cards that are much more powerful.
 
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Capitalism. We are here to help, honest!

And before anyone gets on my back: no, I don't have any better social-economic system. Just reality lol.
Or the one truth above all ~ survival of the fittest, & richest o_O
 
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Or the one truth above all ~ survival of the fittest, & richest o_O

There are, indeed.
 
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Article headline is pretty poor. It should have been "Meta spins off PyTorch Foundation to make AI framework vendor neutral". This article makes it sound like an AMD initiative.
 
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