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Save up for Tenstorrent instead.

I'll look into it, though seeing "contact us" always makes me think they're not going to sell a single unit to a home user. (With that said, Groq probably wouldn't either. You can technically buy LPUs for 20k each, without an expectation of support, but it takes tens of them to run Mixtral.)

Tenstorrent also looks incredibly Python-specific (as in, everything including their SMI seems mostly Python-based) which doesn't seem promising?

fwiw as a consumer I have a tenstorrent card in my machine

that is great. please hit me up privately, i'd love to chat with you about it.

Most of the low-level pieces are in Rust, the TUI is written in Python and most of the remaining pieces are getting lowered down to the Rust libraries over time.

(It was all Python up until ~6 months ago)

EDIT: Oh, and you can buy the Grayskull cards online now, without contacting anyone.

I figured I'd add a bit of clarification here. Tenstorrent has a couple SW stacks. The lowest level programming (Metalium) model is written in C++ and goes down to the register level. Higher level entrypoints (ttlib, ttnn) are written on top of that in python. I think it's the smi tooling and other systems software that might be written in rust.

> EDIT: Oh, and you can buy the Grayskull cards online now, without contacting anyone.

I actually don't mind having to contact, I only mind if they won't want to sell to me due to being a non-bulk order.

> Most of the low-level pieces are in Rust

That's awesome!

Even talking to people there, my experience is that they are super nice!

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