<They still don't look like they are putting in a proper effort.>

Quite the contrary, they've turned around the company to focus on AI.

Legacy software projects are on hold and software developers moved to work on AI under a new VP (former Xilinx exec). They have purchased some startups to get experienced AI developers.

Here is Andrew Ng giving a positive evaluation of AMD's software efforts https://youtu.be/KDBq0GqKpqA?t=2359