The short-term payoff of that drama created a long-term problem where the only way they could look good was by outrunning the progress of the engineers who were inside the company, well funded, and already familiar with everything. It was an impossible goal from the start but he made it even more impossible by attacking AMD. AMD was smart to basically ignore them and wait for him to give up, as opposed to inviting that drama to crossover in-house or split their user base.

pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/rocm6.3

today on stream and it just worked. No external ROCm install, and just the amdgpu driver that's in Arch.

We also have our own complete driver/runtime now in tinygrad; it's so much nicer to build on a foundation when you can blame yourself for the bugs.