HipKittens: Open-Source AMD Kernels for AI Compute Democratization
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Summary
HipKittens is a new open-source project that provides state-of-the-art AMD kernels and programming primitives to make AMD kernel development easier for AI workloads. The project aims to open up AI's compute landscape by supporting multi-silicon AI systems, moving beyond the current dominance of a single hardware vendor. Named after AMD's HIP (Heterogeneous Interface for Portability), which is AMD's equivalent to NVIDIA's CUDA, HipKittens represents an effort to democratize AI hardware and enable more diverse computing architectures.
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· 5 pulledAI is gated by hardware. We think that opening up AI's compute landscape is one of the most important problems to be working on right now.
Building towards this goal, we present HipKittens: SoTA AMD kernels and a collection of opinionated programming primitives to make AMD kernel dev easier!
Named after AMD's CUDA equivalent, called HIP.
Building towards multi-silicon AI systems
While AI has largely used a single hardware vendor to get to its current state
multi silicon ai is coming
