AMD is so behind NVidia that it's not even funny. If AMD board had any sense, they'd be carpet-bombing every researcher, AI startup, and random Joes with the latest engineering samples of unreleased top-of-the line products. And giving them a direct line to the engineering team.

This would end up costing maybe tens of millions at most, but the potential return is indeed measured in billions.

And yep, lots of people like geohot are (to put it mildly) eccentric. So deal with it. They are not merely your customers, they are your freaking sales people.

As it is, I work in a startup that does a bit of AI vision-related stuff. I'm not going to even touch AMD because I don't want to deal with divas on the AMD board in future. NVidia is more expensive right now, but they're far more predictable.