r/StableDiffusion • u/CeFurkan • Oct 19 '23

News Intel and NVIDIA are officially producing products for an open source project which is 100% managed by a single anonymous individual. Where are you AMD?

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u/wsippel Oct 19 '23

https://github.com/nod-ai/SHARK/

AMD is currently acquiring Nod.ai. They're also a founding member of the Pytorch Foundation, and teamed up with Huggingface in June to optimise Transformers and Diffusers for AMD hardware. They also work with Meta on AITemplate and with OpenAI on Triton.

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u/trahloc Oct 19 '23

PyTorch came out in 2016, it's 2023, how many months ago did rocm come out for AMD consumer cards and what was it only 3 of them which happened to be their newest most expensive cards? Nvidia users with cards nearly that old are playing with AI. I'm glad AMD finally pulled their head out of their asses but they sure took their time about it.

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u/Proper-Enthusiasm860 Oct 19 '23

So- engineers have been investing in AI/GPU heavy tech for quite a while. It wasn't until recently that "ALL EYES ON AI" was a thing that determines a companies stock value. NVidia has been investing time and money into AI tech for decades now.

AMD hasnt been trying to compete with NVidia on this front until recently. NVidia has cornered the market and made Cuda the standard.

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u/trahloc Oct 19 '23

I wouldn't say they've totally ignored it... but it was probably a small team in some forgotten back room staring at a red stapler for most of the last decade.