there are obv alternatives from both intel and amd, performant blas/dnn packages, but small teams don’t use them bc cuda is easier to use and has more support,

there are obv alternatives from both intel and amd, performant blas/dnn packages, but small teams don’t use them bc cuda is easier to use and has more support, and larger teams don’t use them bc they have deals w/ nvidia or not enough GPUs are available or they’re after the absolute best performance (which is still nvidia) or bc of other stuff like unstable drivers or smth