The software advantages that have allowed Nvidia to dominate the artificial intelligence sector are being challenged by major tech businesses. As per Reuters, a group comprising of Intel, Google, Arm, Qualcomm, Samsung, and other technology firms is creating an open-source software suite that empowers AI developers from Nvidia’s exclusive technology, hence permitting their code to execute on any device and with any processor.

Although a precise release date was not specified, the organization known as The Unified Acceleration Foundation (UXL) informed Reuters that technical specifics for the project should reach a “mature” condition by the second part of this year. Currently, the project incorporates the OneAPI open standard, which Intel created to remove constraints on developers using certain architecture, like Nvidia’s CUDA platform, such as code bases, coding languages, and other tools.

With its rapid expansion driven by its focus on technology to power AI models, such as its H100 and the future H200 GPUs, Nvidia became the first chipmaker to reach a $2 trillion market valuation last month. Despite being better than anything else on the market, those Nvidia chips force developers to use the company’s CUDA architecture. However, due to the fast increase in demand, there is a shortage while competitors continue to work on their own chips. Four million developers used the Cuda computing model, according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during the company’s 2023 Computex keynote address.

Although UXL claims that the project’s primary goal will be to expand possibilities for AI and high-performance computing applications, the team also intends to support Nvidia’s hardware and software in the future. To make sure the solution can be implemented on any chip or platform, UXL has secured the support of other chipmakers and cloud computing giants like Microsoft and Amazon. It was reported last year that AMD and Microsoft were working together to develop alternative AI chips that may challenge Nvidia’s virtual monopoly on the market. Notably, Microsoft is not a part of the UXL group.