The startup taking direct aim at Nvidia's AI iron grip
Modular cofounder and CEO Chris Lattner Chloe Jackman Photography/Modular Modular aims to break Nvidia's dominance in AI chips with a new portable software stack. The startup's platform lets AI models run on different GPUs, not just Nvidia's. Modular CEO Chris Lattner helped bring Google TPUs to market, with cofounder Tim Davis. In Silicon Valley, where bold technical bets abound, few bets look bolder than trying to break the grip of Nvidia 's CUDA, a software stack that's quietly become the operating system of the AI boom. That's what Modular, a startup founded by software gurus from Apple and Google, is trying to do. Cofounders Chris Lattner and Tim Davis have spent decades building the software plumbing that sits beneath the modern tech industry. Lattner is famous for creating Apple's Swift programming language. He also built the software underpinning Google's TPU AI chips, with Modular cofounder Tim Davis. They're now aiming that ...
