tinygrad Calls Modular Worthy Competition Over Seven Years
tinygrad account flags long-term rivalry with Modular while Lattner replies with praise.
The official tinygrad account posted that a showdown with Chris Lattner of Modular will play out over the next seven years, calling it worthy competition after Lattner spoke at an AMD event. Lattner replied directly, calling the tinygrad creator a legend and stating he is a huge fan of the work. He added that if the approach succeeds he will adopt it, though he has not solved the same problem after a decade in AI compilers. The tinygrad account responded by planning to review Modular over the weekend and thanking Lattner for open-sourcing KGEN.
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tinygrad Calls Modular Worthy Competition Over Seven Years
tinygrad account flags long-term rivalry with Modular while Lattner replies with praise.
The official tinygrad account posted that a showdown with Chris Lattner of Modular will play out over the next seven years, calling it worthy competition after Lattner spoke at an AMD event. Lattner replied directly, calling the tinygrad creator a legend and stating he is a huge fan of the work. He added that if the approach succeeds he will adopt it, though he has not solved the same problem after a decade in AI compilers. The tinygrad account responded by planning to review Modular over the weekend and thanking Lattner for open-sourcing KGEN.
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This showdown will take place over the next 7 years. @clattner_llvm spoke before me at AMD's event, it's great to have such worthy competition.
Now that @Modular is all open source and I dug super deep into the code base -- I have soooo many observations. A few can fit in a tweet. So here's one: Mojo/MAX design is basically anti-@__tinygrad__
@__tinygrad__ You’re a legend George, I’m a huge fan of your work! If you discover the way to make the approach work, I will happily fast follow your approach - I just personally haven’t been able to over my last decade in ai compilers. I hope you do!
@clattner_llvm Likewise! I'm going to spend the weekend going through Modular, thank you for open sourcing KGEN. Our bet has always been that with AI, search is finally powerful enough to find graphs that crush hand written ones.