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Yeah, AMD look like idiots for doing this.

Either they are very stupid, or open sourcing the library stops NVidia from suing them in a repeat of the Oracle/Google lawsuit over Java APIs?

I'm not sure what the reason is?

>>Rachel+(OP)
That was my immediate thought: the software is made publicity available to help add value to their product offering, but they plausable deniability in court and don't have to bear the burden of potential lawsuits or support.

>>Rachel+(OP)
I think AMD is focusing on the "inference" side of ML, which doesn't really require CUDA or similar, and is what they believe a much larger market.

Time will tell if that strategy is going to pan out. Ceding the ML "training" market entirely to Nvidia is certainly a bold move