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Any plans to support AMD GPUs and the Radeon Open Compute project? The AI/ML community really needs viable alternatives to NVIDIA, otherwise they will continue to flex pricing power. Google, via TensorFlow, is in a phenomenal position to promote open source alternatives to the proprietary Deep Learning software ecosystem that we see today with CUDA/CuDNN.

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Google would happily accept patches to enable support for it.

AMD hopefully has a team writing such patches now. It makes business sense for them to do so.

Google is getting even more price gouging from Nvidia than the general public, and has even more incentive to level the playing field.

Or the opposite - they're getting nice savings in return for not actively developing or encouraging CUDA/cuDNN alternatives.

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