[jjcon]

Do any deep learning frameworks even have metal support? I could see inference working well on these laptops but they lack so much of the specialized hardware I'd be surprised if training was even possible for most useable models.

[Tpt]

Apple is maintaining a Tensorflow plugin: https://developer.apple.com/metal/tensorflow-plugin/

[cguess]

There's been work on PyTorch to move some over, but it's still all CPU (which still, on an M1 isn't HORRIBLE) last time I checked.

[muggermuch]

Tensorflow supports Metal AFAIK.