A group of prominent companies in the AI industry have come together to form the AI Platform Alliance. This consortium aims to address the challenges posed by the increasing demand for scalable AI solutions and the compute power required for AI training and inferencing. The founding members include Ampere, Cerebras Systems, Furiosa, Graphcore, Kalray, Kinara, Luminous, Neuchips, Rebellions, and Sapeon, with more companies expected to join in the future.
Meeting the Growing Demands of AI
The rapid expansion of AI has created an unprecedented need for compute power to train and run AI workloads. The AI Platform Alliance recognizes the importance of collaboration and openness to meet this demand. While AI training requires substantial compute resources upfront, the compute power needed for AI inferencing can be up to ten times higher. This poses an even greater challenge as AI usage scales up.
The aim of the group is to “promote better collaboration and openness.”
One of the primary objectives of the AI Platform Alliance is to enhance the power and cost efficiency of AI hardware, surpassing the performance delivered by traditional graphics processing units (GPUs). The alliance aims to validate joint AI solutions that offer superior alternatives to the prevailing GPU-based status quo. This collaborative effort will expedite AI innovation by creating more transparent and accessible AI platforms.
Creating Sustainable and Responsible Infrastructure
The formation of the AI Platform Alliance comes at a critical juncture for the technology industry and the world as a whole. The consortium seeks to establish sustainable, environmentally friendly, and socially responsible infrastructure at scale. By fostering community-driven development, the alliance aims to enhance the efficiency of AI in solving real-world problems.
“We envision a future where AI solutions are not only powerful but also have a positive impact on the world,” says the AI Platform Alliance.
The AI Platform Alliance invites AI companies developing hardware solutions and dedicated to challenging the status quo to join the consortium. Interested companies can apply for membership through the alliance’s website, further expanding the collaborative effort to advance AI technology.
