Honestly I tried searching his recent tweets for AMD and there was way too much noise in there to figure out his current position!

" we are going to move it off AMD to our own or partner silicon. We have developed it to be very portable."

https://x.com/__tinygrad__/status/1879617702526087346

Honest question. That sounds more difficult that getting things to play with commodity hardware. Maybe I am oversimplifying it though.

They have their own nn,etc libraries so adapting should be fairly focused and AMD drivers have a hilariously bad reputation historically among people who program GPU's (I've been bitten a couple of times myself by weirdness).

I think you should consider it as, if they're trying to avoid Nvidia and make sure their code isn't tied to NVidia-isms, and AMD is troublesome enough for basics the step to customized solutions is small enough to be worthwhile for something even cheaper than AMD.

Thanks, I don't have any experience in this realm and this was helpful to digest the problem space.

I consider it a good sign that he hasn’t completely given up. But it sure all seems shaky.