AMD Pervasive AI Developer Contest

AMD and Hugging Face have launched the Pervasive AI Developer Contest, a global competition designed to provide developers with free access to state-of-the-art AMD hardware to create unique AI applications. This initiative aims to accelerate the deployment of cutting-edge AI models on AMD hardware across three primary domains: Generative AI, Robotics AI, and PC AI.

Contest Categories and Rewards

The Pervasive AI Developer Contest provides a total of $160,000 USD in cash prizes, with winners in each category receiving up to $10,000 USD. To facilitate development, 700 AMD platforms are available to eligible participants. Available hardware options include:

  • AMD Radeon‰ PRO W7900
  • AMD Kria‰ KR260 Robotics Starter Kit
  • Ryzen‰ AI powered PCs
  • Cloud access to AMD Instinct‰ MI210 accelerator cards

AMD and Hugging Face Technical Collaboration

AMD and Hugging Face have collaborated to ensure that developers can deploy AI models on AMD GPUs with minimal friction. Key technical integrations include:

Out-of-the-Box Support for LLMs

Developers can run Hugging Face transformer models on AMD GPUs without requiring code modifications. This native support is augmented by several acceleration tools and frameworks, including:

  • ROCm-powered GPU execution for ONNX models
  • Optimum-Benchmark
  • DeepSpeed for ROCm-powered GPUs using Transformers
  • GPTQ
  • TGI (Text Generation Inference)

Support for Ryzen AI PCs

For developers participating in the PC AI category, Hugging Face is expanding its pre-trained model zoo to support a wider variety of models specifically for AMD Ryzen AI Powered PCs, reducing the time required to start building AI applications.

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