> They've converged on a common API before, and AI is a perfectly good reason to do it again. Embarrassingly, Microsoft seems to be the only company perusing th

> They've converged on a common API before, and AI is a perfectly good reason to do it again. Embarrassingly, Microsoft seems to be the only company perusing this route right now Thats not quite accurate. There are some serious (and already very performant) cross platform efforts like Apache TVM and IREE/MLIR, smaller efforts like ggml and tinygrad, and some vendor/niche but genuinely cross platform efforts like OneAPI, or focused bridges like Triton and AITemplate. ...Honestly it feels like the problem is exposure. No one is going to use these frameworks if researchers, app builders and such dont know they exist and dont know how to use them. And that lack of attention starves them of oxygen. Chicken and egg.