Big Tech develops AI networking standard but without chip leader Nvidia

Major tech firms, including Meta , Microsoft, Advanced Micro Devices and Broadcom, said on Thursday they have developed a new industry standard for networking in AI data centers, the latest effort to break the dominance of market leader Nvidia.

The “Ultra Accelerator Link,” is an attempt to establish an open standard for communication between artificial intelligence accelerators – systems that can help process the vast amounts of data employed in AI tasks.

Other members include Alphabet-owned Google, Cisco System, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Intel.