A group formed by Intel, Google, Arm, Qualcomm, Samsung, and other tech companies is developing an open-source software suite that prevents AI developers from being locked into Nvidia’s proprietary technology, allowing their code to run on any machine and with any chip. The group, called The Unified Acceleration Foundation (UXL), said that technical details for the project should reach a “mature” state by the second half of this year, though a final release target wasn’t given. The project currently includes the OneAPI open standard Intel developed to eliminate requirements like specific coding languages, code bases, and other tools from tying developers into using specific architectures, such as Nvidia’s CUDA platform. UXL is also seeking aid from additional chipmakers and cloud-computing companies like Microsoft and Amazon to ensure the solution can be deployed on any chip or hardware.