>However, AMD was less capable than expected and their drivers were too buggy to run neural networks like those needed for the MLPerf benchmark. So now, it appears that AMD, Tinybox, and investors like me won't be making boatloads of money.
This is where the melodrama kicks in.
They reverse-reversed course less than a week later and now they're back on AMD again.
He talks about in his streams how horrible the communication he’s received from AMD is. From what I listened to, it seemed like that was more of why he was giving up initially. Why do a bunch of free work for a massive company that won’t even communicate with you? Especially when he’s doing them a massive favor for next to no investment on their end?
The complaint was that they couldn't debug the GPU.
Now they can, so they're soldiering on.
Seems reasonable to me.