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>However, AMD was less capable than expected and their drivers were too buggy to run neural networks like those needed for the MLPerf benchmark. So now, it appe
by dralley 3y ago
>However, AMD was less capable than expected and their drivers were too buggy to run neural networks like those needed for the MLPerf benchmark. So now, it appears that AMD, Tinybox, and investors like me won't be making boatloads of money.
This is where the melodrama kicks in.
They reverse-reversed course less than a week later and now they're back on AMD again.
AMD plans go "on hold" - March 19: https://twitter.com/__tinygrad__/status/1770151484363354195 https://twitter.com/__tinygrad__/status/1770151484363354195
AMD plans restarted - March 25: https://twitter.com/__tinygrad__/status/1772139983731831051 https://twitter.com/__tinygrad__/status/1772139983731831051
- erichocean 3y ago> This is where the melodrama kicks in. The complaint was that they couldn't debug the GPU. Now they can, so they're soldiering on. Seems reasonable to me.
- dralley 3y agoSurely if they had done a good job communicating with AMD they could have figured that out beforehand. The repo was already public.
- gunsle 3y agoHe talks about in his streams how horrible the communication he’s received from AMD is. From what I listened to, it seemed like that was more of why he was giving up initially. Why do a bunch of free work for a massive company that won’t even communicate with you? Especially when he’s doing them a massive favor for next to no investment on their end?