Aakash GuptaLead source
One Anthropic engineer plugged in a rack of AMD chips, told the company's AI to get its model running on them, and went home for the weekend. AMD's CEO offered to send a team to help, and Anthropic said no thanks. A few days later the AI had done a job Anthropic's engineers used to need 6 to 12 months for, which is bad news for the company that's been getting paid for those 6 to 12 months. That company is Nvidia. Anthropic's chief compute officer, Tom Brown, told the weekend story back in July, and this week Anthropic put the number in front of IPO investors: a chart showing about 3 days for its Mythos model to get one of its other models working on AMD's MI355X chips, versus 6 to 12 months the old way. Read the fine print before calling CUDA dead, though. CUDA is Nvidia's software, and…Read original on X