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Ask HN: Why hasn’t AMD made a viable CUDA alternative?

187 points spacebanana7 | 1 comments | 01 Apr 25 14:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.215s | source

I appreciate developing ROCm into something competitive with CUDA would require a lot of work, both internally within AMD and with external contributions to the relevant open source libraries.

However the amount of resources at stake is incredible. The delta between NVIDIA's value and AMD's is bigger than the annual GDP of Spain. Even if they needed to hire a few thousand engineers at a few million in comp each, it'd still be a good investment.

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mayerwin ◴[02 Apr 25 07:32 UTC] No.43554438[source]▶
Tinycorp (owned by George Hotz, also behind Comma.ai) is working on it after AMD finally understood that it was a no-brainer: https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2025/03/08/AMD-Y... Exciting times ahead!
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1. ActorNightly ◴[03 Apr 25 07:38 UTC] No.43566161[source]▶
I doubt anything will come from this, granted how much he hyped Comma and where its at now.

Namely, the fact that this is still on the website:

> How is tinygrad faster than PyTorch? For most use cases it isn't yet, but it will be

Despite being in development for so long is kinda telling. Like at least prove that you can make it work on CUDA as well as Pytorch.

Otherwise its just an personal project based on your ideology, and then when other companies don't play along with what you think is right, you get to blame their culture because you can never be wrong.