Nvidia today announced a new GeForce Game Ready Driver update that's bound to turn the head of anyone dabbling with local Stable Diffusion installations. The latest GeForce Game Ready Driver Release 532.03, which will be released later today, packs in learnings from Microsoft's Olive toolchain, a hardware-aware model optimization tool that aims to perfectly stitch your diffusion model's processing to your graphics cards' capabilities.
According to Microsoft, Olive has the ability to modify the base model according to the hardware capabilities available — whether in local installations, on the cloud, or on the edge. Olive is a way to abstract away all the different Machine Learning (ML) acceleration tool chains distributed by the different market players. Part of its mission, then, is to reduce market fragmentation around ML acceleration techniques.
