AMD acquires artificial intelligence software company Nod.ai to strengthen its open source product lineup

CTOnews.com, October 10 (Xinhua)-- AMD tonight announced the acquisition of open source artificial intelligence software company Nod.ai to expand its open source AI product capabilities. AMD did not disclose the financial terms of the acquisition.

According to public information, Nod.ai was founded in 2013, with investors including 8Square Capital, Atlantic Bridge, Pointguard Ventures and Walden International.

A software ecosystem of developer tools, libraries, and models has been developed to accelerate the deployment of AMD chip AI solutions, including Ryzen AI chips for consumer PC, EPYC CPU, Radeon GPU, and Versal processors for data centers.

"the acquisition of Nod.ai will greatly enhance our ability to provide open software to AI customers, enabling them to easily deploy high-performance AI models optimized for AMD hardware." "the addition of the Nod.ai team accelerates our ability to advance open source compiler technology and implement portable, high-performance AI solutions across AMD's portfolio," said Vamsi Boppana, senior vice president of the Nod.ai artificial Intelligence Group. "Today, Nod.ai technology is widely deployed in cloud, edge and a variety of endpoint devices."

As of CTOnews.com 's press release, AMD u.s. stocks rose only 0.40% before trading, and are currently quoted at $107.40 a share, with a market capitalization of about $172.828 billion.