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Either this was the plan all along (cashing in on the bubble) or it’s an admission of failure.
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I don't think $4B is reasonable for an acquihire. They must see value in the technology.
It's an all stock deal. No cash. With undoubtedly a very healthy earn out. > They must see value in the technology. What value? Mojo doesn't currently support any of Qualcomm's GPUs.
good for the founders. also explains why my resume got dropped on the floor as a desk reject :p
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> sorry for rambling. You're right to ramble. I also believe that the world need a high level language fitting for accelerators that is not Python. However developing something like that is by all means not a trivial task and many failed there.
Lisp, see Connection Machine and Star Lisp. Several decades of their time. Best of all, it is actually compiled without JIT drama. This is the reasoning behind the guys that have created a whole new Common Lisp frontend to LLVM for biochemistry research at MIT.
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Though, Modular should have been the team to do it. My theory is that they raised too much money too soon. With that kind of money, you get anxious investors waiting to see some magic on quarterly timelines. So Modular was forced to be compatible with Python as there's no other way to win quick developer mindshare. (Though I don't think they managed to do that either). A closest counter path I would have expected Mod…
Julia and the Python JITs from GPU vendors will. Mojo already lost the moment AMD, NVIDIA and Intel decided to fully support Python and Julia. Additionally all of the parallel programming improvements in ISO C++ are coming from them as well, Modular did not have much moat when being a follower and not a driver.
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I might be reading this differently, but isn't the acquisition a bet that Modular will become a manufacturer-agnostic software stack? > "We believe the future belongs to developer-friendly, horizontal platforms that can run across diverse compute environments and give customers real choice in how and where they deploy AI," Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said.
one of the reasons I rarely read press releases is that I don't believe in promises -- I believe in _incentives_. In this case, what will Qualcomm be incentivized to do? What are in their interests?
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I might be reading this differently, but isn't the acquisition a bet that Modular will become a manufacturer-agnostic software stack? > "We believe the future belongs to developer-friendly, horizontal platforms that can run across diverse compute environments and give customers real choice in how and where they deploy AI," Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said.
one of the reasons I rarely read press releases is that I don't believe in promises -- I believe in _incentives_. In this case, what will Qualcomm be incentivized to do? What are in their interests?
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> You’re equivalent of saying the Intel delays were a success too. If Trump nuked TSMC's production lines the day before M1 went to production, and the production lines came back 3 years later, would Apple ship the M1 on it? Or, the M3? As you point out, it makes 0 sense to ship the M1. If it makes 0 sense, why project that idea onto me? When faced with a contradiction, first, check your premises. (and read your inte…
> As you point out, it makes 0 sense to ship the M1. But that's what happened. Go check the benchmarks. Clearly you haven't. That Snapdragon X that got released (1st gen) was way off the mark. > When faced with a contradiction When faced with a hallucination...
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Julia and the Python JITs from GPU vendors will. Mojo already lost the moment AMD, NVIDIA and Intel decided to fully support Python and Julia. Additionally all of the parallel programming improvements in ISO C++ are coming from them as well, Modular did not have much moat when being a follower and not a driver.
How did Mojo already lose when Qualcomm just made a $4B bet on it? You're forgetting that the language is still pre-1.0. The way I think of this... if Modular is able to remain an open platform, being part of an established corporation with existing customers is a better way to drive penetration compared to acquiring new customers.
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Lisp, see Connection Machine and Star Lisp. Several decades of their time. Best of all, it is actually compiled without JIT drama. This is the reasoning behind the guys that have created a whole new Common Lisp frontend to LLVM for biochemistry research at MIT.
What is the drama with JIT? Vs AoT?