If they can achieve something competitive with CUDA for $5m, why hasn't AMD done it yet?
Vision.
That being said I am still sceptical.
The tiny corp raised $5.1M
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#32Didn't realize the 7900 XTX was so good at this kind of work. Glad to have went with it over the 4080.
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#33I respect Geohot's reputation and this company looks amazing. I might be in the market to work there... except "No Remote."
For such a smart guy, locking yourself out of a ton of talent by requiring software developers to be on-site in 2023 seems...out of character, to put it politely.
(Rephrased, my original post was a bit too ad hominem and accumulating downvotes rapidly. I wanted to delete this entire comment but apparently HN no longer allows comments to be deleted.)
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#34I was always surprised at how AMD hasn't already thrown a bunch of money at this problem. Maybe they have and are just incompetent in this area. My prediction is AMD is already working on this internally, except more oriented around PyTorch not Hotz's Tinygrad, which I doubt will get much traction.
I think AMD is going down a different path, ie. ROCm then partnering with ML frameworks further up the stack for first class support.
https://pytorch.org/blog/pytorch-for-amd-rocm-platform-now-a...
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#35I respect Geohot's reputation and this company looks amazing. I might be in the market to work there... except "No Remote." For such a smart guy, locking yourself out of a ton of talent by requiring software developers to be on-site in 2023 seems...out of character, to put it politely. (Rephrased, my original post was a bit too ad hominem and accumulating downvotes rapidly. I wanted to delete this entire comment but…
what about IP theft though?
Re: The tiny corp raised $5.1M
#36I respect Geohot's reputation and this company looks amazing. I might be in the market to work there... except "No Remote." For such a smart guy, locking yourself out of a ton of talent by requiring software developers to be on-site in 2023 seems...out of character, to put it politely. (Rephrased, my original post was a bit too ad hominem and accumulating downvotes rapidly. I wanted to delete this entire comment but…
what about IP theft though?
what about it?
Re: The tiny corp raised $5.1M
#37I respect Geohot's reputation and this company looks amazing. I might be in the market to work there... except "No Remote." For such a smart guy, locking yourself out of a ton of talent by requiring software developers to be on-site in 2023 seems...out of character, to put it politely. (Rephrased, my original post was a bit too ad hominem and accumulating downvotes rapidly. I wanted to delete this entire comment but…
How big is Tiny Corp?
I doubt they need mass volumes of employees at this stage and they maybe want to work closely with the people they choose?
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#38Good idea. I don't think George Hotz has the skill set to actually deliver on a lot of this stuff (specifically I suspect trying to replace the compiler for the GPU is something that he will probably make a song and dance about with some simple prototype but then quietly scrap it because even for AI workloads its still a very very tricky problem) but he has the strength of vision to get and direct other people to do it for him.
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#39So much untapped potential in AMD, and funny they keep failing at the software and geohot has to save them
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#40I clicked through to the previous blog post, to read more about the unit of a "person" of compute [0]. Definitely worth a read, if only for this quote:
> One Humanity is 20,000 Tampas.
I'll never think of humanity the same way!
[0]: https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2023/04/26/a-per...