Why "graft"? It's not something that's foreign to them. This promises to essentially double the performance of Intel chips on an increasingly important workload, and also simplify the modeling work, because the models don't experience any accuracy drop when simply converted to bfloat16, unlike with quantization, where it's model dependent and finicky AF. I'd much rather do fp16 or bfloat16 at inference time, without constant pain that is quantization. I hope ARM, AMD and RISCV pay attention and implement this in the exact same way, so that models could be portable.