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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
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Hotz: Tinygrad runs OpenPilot in production 2x faster than Qualcomm's library
“TinyGrad is used to run the model in OpenPilot. Like right now, it's been live in production now for six months. And TinyGrad is about two X faster on the GPU than Qualcomm's library.”
George Hotz Jun 20, 2023 ▶ 21:36 Ep 18: Petaflops to the People — with George Hotz of tinycorp
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Hotz: Tinygrad is about 5x slower than PyTorch on Nvidia GPUs
“The correctness for both forwards and backwards passes is there, but on Nvidia, it's about five X slower than PyTorch right now.”
George Hotz Jun 20, 2023 ▶ 21:15 Ep 18: Petaflops to the People — with George Hotz of tinycorp
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