Hacker News with Generative AI: Compute

Sam Altman says lack of compute is delaying the company's products (techcrunch.com)
In a Reddit AMA, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted that a lack of compute capacity is one major factor preventing the company from shipping products as often as it’d like.
Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, Technology, Business, Compute
43 points by mfiguiere 33 days ago | 14 comments
AMD ROCm Looks Like It Will Be Supporting OpenCL 3.0 Soon (phoronix.com)
The OpenCL 3.0 compute specification has been out in finalized form since September 2020. Since then NVIDIA's official Windows/Linux drivers have been exposing OpenCL 3.0 going back to 2021, the Intel Compute Runtime stack has also been exposing OpenCL 3.0 support for years, and even with Mesa's Rusticl open-source OpenCL implementation it's beginning to see Gallium3D drivers with conformant OpenCL 3.0. Yet if installing the AMD ROCm compute stack right now, you'll see OpenCL 2.1.
AMD, OpenCL, Open Source, Graphics Cards, Compute
21 points by rbanffy 46 days ago | 4 comments