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VIDRAFT released VKORE, an AI acceleration software layer for NPUs, which through software means gives NPUs originally capable only of inference the ability to train, without replacing hardware.
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Medium-term (~90 days)
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10/13/2026
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Valid until: 1/11/2027
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UnverifiedVIDRAFT's VKORE software acceleration layer, without changing the chip, both increases NPU inference performance several times over and makes Transformer LoRA training run on this kind of inference-specific hardware, with numerical precision aligned with standard PyTorch at 0.9999.75% similarUnverifiedVKORE enabled LoRA Transformer training to be successfully completed on an NPU, which was previously infeasible on an NPU.74% similarUnverifiedAn NPU is a dedicated chip designed specifically to accelerate AI computation, typically consuming 1–5W of power while delivering several TOPS of AI processing performance.72% similarUnverifiedThe NPU built into Intel Core Ultra processors typically delivers 10-15 TOPS (INT8), which is suitable for AI inference but not for model training.70% similarPartially VerifiedVKORE is positioned as a hardware-agnostic software layer, aimed at data centers with mixed GPU and NPU deployments, and is not tied to a specific chip vendor.70% similar
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