AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M

Re:AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M by fngjdflmdflg on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @03:35PM (#40930612)

>Nvidia also spends a metric shit ton of money to make sure professors use and teach on their platform.

Do you have a source for this claim? Or do you simply mean that since they spend money making it better that professors end up using it on their own accord?

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Re:AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M by flakiness on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @03:52PM (#40930808)

They co-author the definitive CUDA textbook, and it's based on their sponsored class (You can find the story in the intro of the book.) https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Massively-Parallel-Proces...

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Re:AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M by YetAnotherNick on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @06:41PM (#40932198)

Co authoring a book is not "metric shit ton of money".

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Re:AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M by chaostheory on Thursday July 11, 2024 @10:28AM (#40937207)

No, I think it’s a source for the claim and not the actual evidence of what they spent it on.

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Re:AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M by physicsguy on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @04:24PM (#40931132)

I hold an NVidia instructors cert from when I worked in academia. They even give you access to hardware while you’re running courses on it. It’s super easy and totally free.

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Re:AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M by nojvek on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @06:42PM (#40932210)

I won an Nvidia GPU while I was doing my advanced graphics course for making custom shaders.

Had to buy a new power supply just so I could use it.

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