In a surprising move, Google and Nvidia have collaborated on a new language model development framework, PaxML, built on Google’s AI framework: JAX. This could potentially break JAX into the mainstream and offer developers a larger amount of compute than AWS or Azure. Google is now pushing Vertex AI into a competitive category with Azure and AWS. The collaboration with Nvidia on PaxML could have significant implications for AI development as a whole.
Key takeaways:
- Google is making a massive bet on its Google Cloud AI infrastructure Vertex AI, in an attempt to reclaim its title as the most powerful AI company. This includes a large number of upgrades and the availability of many models to serve through its cloud infrastructure.
- Google's history of releasing groundbreaking technology and then letting competitors run off with the spoils is a risk with its current AI technology, Transformers. This happened previously with the release of the original MapReduce infrastructure and TensorFlow.
- Google and Nvidia have been collaborating on a new language model development framework, PaxML, built on top of Google’s cutting-edge machine learning framework JAX and its Accelerated Linear Algebra framework (or XLA). This could potentially break JAX into the mainstream.
- Google is now pushing Vertex AI into a competitive category with Azure and AWS. It's also possible that its collaboration with Nvidia on PaxML could have substantial ramifications for AI development as a whole.