Q.ANT , a startup out of Stuttgart, Germany, builds processors that use light instead of electricity to do some of the math behind AI. The company pitches them as a way to run AI on a fraction of the power today’s chips need. Now developers can start writing software for those chips without owning one. Q.ANT pushed a free, open-source software kit to GitHub this week that lets developers build and test programs on a normal computer, then run them on the real chips once they get access. This is a move out of Nvidia’s playbook. Nvidia owes its lead in AI as much to CUDA, the software developers...

Source: The New Stack