The larger issue is that they need to fix the access to their high end GPUs. You can't rent a MI250... or even a MI300x (yet, I'm working on that myself!). But that said, you can't rent an H100 either... there are none available.
They're having to announce it so much because people are rightly sceptical. Talk is cheap, and their software has sucked for years. Have they given concrete proof of their commitment, e.g. they've spent X dollars or hired Y people to work on it (or big names Z and W)?
MI300x and ROCm 6 and their support of projects like Pytorch, are all good steps in the right direction. HuggingFace now supports ROCm.
I have a bridge to sell.
"AMD is not serious, and neither is Intel for that matter. Their software are piles of proprietary garbage fires. They may say they are serious but literally nothing indicates they are."
"Yes, and ROCm also doesn't work on anything non-AMD. In fact it doesn't even work on all recent AMD gpus. T"
However, my experience is that the comments about AMD are spot-on, with the exception of the word "proprietary."
Intel hasn't gotten serious yet, and has a good track record in other domains (compilers, numerical libraries, etc.). They've been flailing for a while, but I'm curious if they'll come up with something okay.
"literally nothing" is also wrong given that they just had a large press announcement on Dec 6th (yt as part of my response below), where they spent 2 hours saying (and showing) they are serious.
The second comment was made and then immediately deleted, in a way that was to send me a message directly. It is what irked me enough to post their comments back.
I reassigned your comments in this thread to a random user ID, so it's as if you had used a throwaway account to post them and there's no link to your main account. I also updated the reference to your username in another comment. Does that work for you?
They have a track record of taking open projects, adding proprietary extensions, and then requiring those extensions to work with other tools. This sounds fine, but they are very slow/never update the base libs. From version to version they'll muck with deep dependencies, sometimes they'll even ship different rules on different platforms (I dare you to try to static link openmp in a recent version of oneapi targeting windows). If you ship a few tools (let's say A and B) that use the same dynamic lib, it's a royal pain to make sure they don't conflict with each other if you update software A but not B. Ranting about consumer junk aside, their cluster focused tooling on Linux tends to be quite good, especially compared to amd.
IMO the comment deletion system handles deleting your own comment wrong - it should grey out the comment and strikethrough it, and label it "comment disavowed" or something with the username removed, but it shouldn't actually delete the comment.
Deleting the comment damages the history, and makes the comment chain hard to follow.
I feel bad for the younger generation. Privacy is important, and more so than "the history."
Not a perfect job -- everyone screws up once in a while -- but this forum works better than most.
There's a wide range of acceptable answers. Don't participate in a forum if you don't like their policy. Measured by overall forum quality HN has a decent enough approach.