[deeviant]

> Given some time, AMD can apply the same software optimizations, or one of their partners will.

Except they have been given time, lots of it, and yet AMD is not anywhere close to parity with CUDA. It's almost like you can't just snap your figures and willy-nilly replicate the billions of dollars and decades investment that went into CUDA.

[viewtransform]

That was a year ago. AMD is changing their software ecosystem at a rapid pace with AI software as a #1 priority. Experienced engineers have been reassigned from legacy projects to focus on AI software. They've bought a number of software startups that were already developing software in this space. It also looks like they replaced the previous AMD top level management with directors from Xilinx to reenergize the team.

To get a picture of the current state which has changed a lot, this MS Ignite presentation from three weeks ago may be of interest. The slides show the drop in compatibility they have for higher levels of the stack and the tools for translation at the lower levels. Finally there's a live demo at the end.

https://youtu.be/7jqZBTduhAQ?t=61

[oelang]

The transformer engine is a fairly recent development (april this year I think) so I don't think they're very far behind.