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Comment by singhrac | Hacker News Reader

I think it's still wild that neither Tensorflow nor PyTorch work on Apple's MBP GPUs - AMD can't run ROCm on anything but Linux, and NVIDIA drivers aren't supported if you wanted to get an external GPU.

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This combined with Microsoft's roadmap with a WSL that works on CUDA GPUs is going to cost Apple a lot of ML/AI/HPC developer mindshare. Yes, we do a lot of our work on remote machines, but it's not always the most convenient way to experiment. I doubt my next machine will be a MacBook.

There seems to be an ongoing work for Vulcan Compute support for Tensorflow. But the mlir repo moved at the end of 2019 and I don't see where (or if) the discussion and PR continue, because the new repo doesn't even use Github Issues.

  https://github.com/tensorflow/mlir/issues/60
  https://github.com/tensorflow/mlir/pull/118
  https://github.com/tensorflow/mlir/

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