> AMD already has major ongoing projects with OpenXLA/IREE.

And how's that been going? The AMD stock price compared to NVidia seems to speak volumes about the efficacy of these projects.

IREE has been around for 5 years, without producing anything overtly practical. They seem to be focused more on academic jobs and citations. It's also focused on the general case of a compiler for "all" AI-type tasks, supporting everything from WASM to CUDA.

OpenXLA seems to be a bit more practical, but I spent the last 2 hours trying to make it work on my AMD card (Radeon Pro W7900) and failing.

I personally don't like Tinygrad's approach of doing their own thing rather than integrating into PyTorch/JAX/..., but it at least is _practical_ with a reasonable end-goal. Is it going to be successful? Who knows. But it's more practical than anything AMD has done within the recent 5 years.