[roenxi]

> Back in the day you had to optimize your card for Quake...

That is exactly the attitude that got AMD out in the cold away from the AI revolution; they learned a lot of stupid lessons about optimising to specific games and present-day use cases instead of trying to implement general capabilities to a higher standard like Nvidia did in CUDA. They ended up a decade away from a multi-trillion dollar market

PyTorch might be special. I wouldn't be at all surprised if AMD does have a dedicated engineer working on PyTorch. But their problem to date hasn't been that their engagement with PyTorch, but rather that literally nobody could make PyTorch work on AMD cards which had buggy and terrible support for GPGPU work. If they fixed that some random might do the work without their involvement because a lot of people want to see that happen.

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Now that the required task is known though, it doesn't really matter. If AMD understand that, they should have no problem putting engineers on making Pytorch work well.

Considering its importance, it shouldn't be one engineer. It should be 50+.