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DeepSeek's AI breakthrough bypasses industry-standard CUDA, uses assembly-like PTX programming instead (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] eager_eagle 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wish that was true, but this doesn't threaten any monopoly

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

~~It certainly does.~~

~~Until last week, you absolutely NEEDED an NVidia GPU equipped with CUDA to run all AI models.~~

~~Today, that is simply not true. (watch the video at the end of this comment)~~

~~I watched this video and my initial reaction to this news was validated and then some: this video made me even more bearish on NVDA.~~

Edit: corrected and redacted.

[–] eager_eagle 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

mate, that means they are using PTX directly. If anything, they are more dependent to NVIDIA and the CUDA platform than anyone else.

to simplify: they are bypassing the CUDA API, not the NVIDIA instruction set architecture and not CUDA as a platform.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Ahh. Thanks for this insight.

[–] eager_eagle 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Until last week, you absolutely NEEDED an NVidia GPU equipped with CUDA to run all AI models.

also not true

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Thanks for the corrections.