AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M
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Re: AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M
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#3Nice to see AMD finally doing something about competing in the compute market (LLM being the hottest thing at the moment)!
Though apparently MI300X is a fine product as well. But it still needs code.
Re: AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M
#4My cursory understanding is that Silo is a developer of LLMs that run on top of compute platforms. Isn't the problem with no one using AMD's accelerators the fact that their programming environment is sub-par compared to CUDA, or even Apple's?
Re: AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M
#5Looks like a consulting company[1] at first glance. Also, empty HuggingFace account[2].
[1]: https://www.silo.ai/ [2]: https://huggingface.co/SiloAI
Re: AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M
#6My cursory understanding is that Silo is a developer of LLMs that run on top of compute platforms. Isn't the problem with no one using AMD's accelerators the fact that their programming environment is sub-par compared to CUDA, or even Apple's?
Sure, buying this company for 600m will fix everything.
Re: AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M
#7What are they going to give AMD that they are priced this high?
Re: AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M
#8My cursory understanding is that Silo is a developer of LLMs that run on top of compute platforms. Isn't the problem with no one using AMD's accelerators the fact that their programming environment is sub-par compared to CUDA, or even Apple's?
They successfully trained LLMs on Lumi, which has AMD Instinct MI250X GPUs. This perhaps provides a hint about one angle on why AMD are interested.
Re: AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M
#9Huge congratulations to the founders and what a nice mark for the European (and Nordirc) startup community.
It's gonna be quite interesting to see if this works out strategically.
I guess the bet is an in-house army of PhDs vs. having a CUDA - which you don't as a second mover here - and assuming PhDs tightly coupled with the hardware can outperform an open framework/ push Triton to parity to CUDA over time.
Re: AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M
#10Anyone know a timeline for AMD on MLPerf?