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Apple's MLX adding CUDA support

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548 points nsagent | 1 comments | 14 Jul 25 21:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.432s | source
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lukev ◴[15 Jul 25 02:18 UTC] No.44567263[source]▶
So to make sure I understand, this would mean:

1. Programs built against MLX -> Can take advantage of CUDA-enabled chips

but not:

2. CUDA programs -> Can now run on Apple Silicon.

Because the #2 would be a copyright violation (specifically with respect to NVidia's famous moat).

Is this correct?

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saagarjha ◴[15 Jul 25 02:28 UTC] No.44567309[source]▶
No, it's because doing 2 would be substantially harder.
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lukev ◴[15 Jul 25 02:39 UTC] No.44567356[source]▶
There's a massive financial incentive (billions) to allow existing CUDA code to run on non-NVidia hardware. Not saying it's easy, but is implementation difficulty really the blocker?
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1. int_19h ◴[15 Jul 25 17:37 UTC] No.44573767[source]▶
From the market perspective, it's down to whether the amount of money needed to get there and stay there (keeping in mind that this would have to be an ongoing effort given that CUDA is not a static target) is more or less than the amount of money needed to just buy NVIDIA GPUs.