Nvidia has a small lead on the industry in a few places, adding up to super attractive backend hardware options. They aren't invincible, but they profit off the

Nvidia has a small lead on the industry in a few places, adding up to super attractive backend hardware options. They aren't invincible, but they profit off the hostility between their competitors. Until those companies gang up to fund an open alternative, it's open season for Nvidia and HPC customers. The recent Stable Diffusion results are great news, but also don't include comparisons to an Nvidia card using the same optimizations. Nvidia claims that Microsoft Olive doubles performance on their cards too, so it might be a bit of a wash: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2023/05/23/microsoft-build-nvidia-ai-windows-rtx/ https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2023/05/23/microsoft-build-nvi... Plus, none of those optimizations were any more open than CUDA (since it used DirectML). > crunching 4/8/16 bit width numbers is no rocket science. Of course not. That's why everyone did it: https://onnxruntime.ai/docs/execution-providers https://onnxruntime.ai/docs/execution-providers The problem with that "15 competing standards" XKCD is that normally one big proprietary standard wins. Nvidia has the history, the stability, the multi-OS and multi-arch support. The industry can definitely overturn it, but they have to work together to obsolete it.