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India startup Ziroh runs AI models on CPUs instead of GPUs

Indian start-up Ziroh Labs of Bengaluru has come up with a way to run AI programmes on relatively inexpensive CPUs instead of ultra-expensive GPUs.

Called Kompact AI, the technology is aimed at bringing AI training and inference to SMEs which cannot afford GPUs.

“Anything that can be computed on a GPU can also be calculated on a CPU; what really matters is that we are able to offer 3x more quantitative performance than current systems without compromising model quality or accuracy,” says Ziroh co-founder Hrishikesh Dewan.


On its site Ziroh lists ‘Models already CPU-fied’ and ‘Models on the way’.


Ziroh developed the technology in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) and IIT-M Pravartak Technologies Foundation.

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