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Aravind Srinivas: Google is the only company full-stack independent of Nvidia
“The only one who's managed to do this, I would say, is Google. They built their own chips, they built their own software around it called JAX, and then they built their own accelerated linear algebra library called XLA. And then, you know, they have their own …”
Hotz: Tinygrad runs all ML models with only 25 primitive operations
“Tiny grad is, we are going to make a risk offset for all ML models. And yeah, it can run all ML models with basically 25 instead of the two 50 of XLA or PrimTorch. So about 10 X less complex.”