Startup criticizes AMD over buggy firmware
The AI startup founded by security hacker George Hotz originally selected AMD's flagship gaming GPU for its TinyBox, a computer equipped with six graphics cards to tackle AI workloads. Initially,was happy to use AMD GPUs as it felt customers were"overpaying for petaflops" with Nvidia hardware, and criticized the CUDA software stack for being closed source.
Meanwhile, Tiny Corp suggested it might use Intel's Arc Alchemist GPUs instead since Intel also has a large open source presence, though its graphics cards don't reach into the top end. Even a GeForce RTX 4090-powered TinyBox was being considered reluctantly since"at least we know the software is good there."
Additionally, Tiny Corp says"expect an announcement from AMD, it's not everything we asked for, but it's a start." This may mean AMD has partially addressed Tiny Corp's stability issues with the RX 7900XTX, though it's not clear whether this solution is at least in part open source.
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