alt Hacker NewsIs that a bad thing? Good for him to stand up to extortion.
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"I estimate having software on par with NVDA would raise their market cap by 100B. Then you estimate what the chance it that @__tinygrad__ can close that gap, say it's 0.1%, probably a very low estimate when you see what we have done so far, but still...
That's worth 100M. And they won't even send us 2 ~100k boxes. In what world does that make sense, except in a world where decisions are made based on pride instead of ROI. Culture issue."
Yeah, AMD is already pouring a lot of support into OpenXLA/IREE, which has a lot of well-respected compiler engineers and researchers working on it, and companies like AWS are also investing into it.
I don’t really think TinyCorp has anything to offer AMD.
Hard to say from my perspective.
I think AMDs offer was fair (full remote access to several test machines), then again just giving tinycorp the boxes on their terms with no strings attached as a kind of research grant would have earned them some goodwill with that corner of the community.
Either way both parties will continue making controversial decisions.