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TensorWave thinks it can break Nvidia’s grip on AI compute with an AMD-powered cloud

TensorWave is building an all-AMD cloud for AI training. I thinks it can rival Nvidia on cost -- and performance.

But TensorWave, a company founded late last year, is going against the grain by launching a cloud that only offers access to hardware from Nvidia rival AMD for AI workloads. “We recognized an unhealthy monopoly at work — one that was starving end-users of compute access and stifling innovation in the AI space,” Darrick Horton, TensorWave’s CEO and one of its co-founders, told TechCrunch. Tatarchuk co-founded cloud vendor VMAccel with Horton before selling another startup, CRM developer Lets Rolo, to digital identity firm LifeKey.

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