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2 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 20, 2023 by George Hotz · said 4 times in 3 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Jun 20, 2023 positive
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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.”
George Hotz Jun 20, 2023 ▶ 3:51 Ep 18: Petaflops to the People — with George Hotz of tinycorp
Jun 20, 2023 negative
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Hotz: Google's TPU compiler is a closed-source 32MB binary blob
“Not only is the chip closed source, But all of XLA is open source, but the XLA to TPU compiler is a 32 megabyte binary blob called lib TPU on Google's cloud instances. It's all closed source.”
George Hotz Jun 20, 2023 ▶ 10:45 Ep 18: Petaflops to the People — with George Hotz of tinycorp
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