I agree. I have high hope for Graphcore. They stated "We will be participating in MLPerf in 2021, starting with the first training submission in the spring".

I agree. I have high hope for Graphcore. They stated "We will be participating in MLPerf in 2021, starting with the first training submission in the spring". https://www.graphcore.ai/posts/graphcore-sets-new-ai-performance-standards-with-mk2-ipu-systems https://www.graphcore.ai/posts/graphcore-sets-new-ai-perform... (I would ignore all benchmarks in that post except the sentence quoted above however.)