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I want the NVIDIA monopoly to end, but there is no real competition still. * George Hotz has basically given up on AMD: https://x.com/__tinygrad__/status/1770151484363354195

* Groq can't produce more hardware past their "demo". It seems like they haven't grown capacity in the years since they announced, and they switched to a complete SaaS model and don't even sell hardware anymore.

* I dont know enough about MLX, Triton, and JAX,



I also noticed that Groq's Chief Architect now works for NVIDIA.

https://research.nvidia.com/person/dennis-abts


That George Hotz tweet is from March last year. He's gone back and forth on AMD a bunch more times since then.


The same Hotz who lasted like 4 weeks at Twitter after announcing that he'd fix everything? It doesn't really inspire a ton of confidence that he can single handedly take down Nvidia...


is that good or bad?


I consider it a good sign that he hasn’t completely given up. But it sure all seems shaky.


Honestly I tried searching his recent tweets for AMD and there was way too much noise in there to figure out his current position!


" we are going to move it off AMD to our own or partner silicon. We have developed it to be very portable."

https://x.com/__tinygrad__/status/1879617702526087346


Honest question. That sounds more difficult that getting things to play with commodity hardware. Maybe I am oversimplifying it though.


They have their own nn,etc libraries so adapting should be fairly focused and AMD drivers have a hilariously bad reputation historically among people who program GPU's (I've been bitten a couple of times myself by weirdness).

I think you should consider it as, if they're trying to avoid Nvidia and make sure their code isn't tied to NVidia-isms, and AMD is troublesome enough for basics the step to customized solutions is small enough to be worthwhile for something even cheaper than AMD.


Thanks, I don't have any experience in this realm and this was helpful to digest the problem space.


It looks like he’s close to having own AMD stack, tweet linked in the article, Jan 15,2025: https://x.com/__tinygrad__/status/1879615316378198516


We'll check in again with him in 3 months and he'll still be just 1 piece away.


$1000 bounty? That's like 2 hours of development time at market rate lol




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