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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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[โ€“] 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Ahh. Thanks for this insight.