Tiny corp/tinygrad has been working for a year+ and has raised something like $5 million dollars to try to get AMD chips up to speed to Nvidia, without much success. Check out twitter where George Hotz has been very vocal about AMD needing to open source their chips to allow someone to help them get up to speed.
Consumer AMD chips to be precise. AMD is mostly focusing on their datacenter chips (MI300X), and I assume the support for AI workloads there is much better. They might even see their consumer chip undermining sales of datacenter chips.
NVIDIA got big because CUDA works on the most crappy notebook GPUs up to their most powerful chips, and AMD should do the same, but focusing their limited number of driver devs on the expensive enterprise hardware makes sense IMHO.
I think moving geohotz closer to the levers of power and into places where he can see even more sensitive information to squawk on twitter/github probably is the exact opposite of how AMD wants to handle the situation.
AI/ML is a rapidly moving field etc and you know geohot is gonna leak it all on twitter as soon as there's anything to announce, which makes it far more difficult for them to pivot later, etc.
