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It sort of does need an alternative, but also, on the AI front, I don't think Cuda is really that important anymore.

It's finally teetering & I think will really be tilting hard soon, but more generic systems are happening. OpenXLA has just taken over a huge part of the AI regime, and it's IREE representation has all kinds of different targets.

Cuda was more important when there weren't well established solid frameworks. For sure, there's plenty of places in computing where we do need general purpose low level GPGPU capabilities. And AMD and HIP leave a bit to be desired (the whole having to recompile the work again for each piece of hardware is a bitter pill especially). But in many places I think the hardware WI have very different means to be very very well targeted, rather than devs hand writing c++.