Top scientist urges China to develop alternative to Nvidia's CUDA software
a year ago
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- Li Guojie, a computer scientist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, urges China to develop an alternative to Nvidia’s CUDA software.
- He suggests that OpenAI may be hitting the scaling wall in AI development.
- Li states that China’s AI accelerator chips, including Huawei’s Ascend series, Hygon’s deep-learning computing unit, and Cambricon Technologies, are comparable to Nvidia’s in hardware capabilities.
- He emphasizes the need for China to establish a controllable AI software tool system surpassing CUDA.
- Li compares China’s efforts to replace Western hardware-software systems (like Windows-Intel or Android-Arm) with building an AI software ecosystem.
- He describes the task as extremely arduous, requiring careful planning and long-term efforts.