Comma AI, the company founded by George Hotz and known for its open-source driver assistance software openpilot, has announced the Chestnut, a $249 eGPU dock with open-source firmware. The device aims…
Comma.ai, founded by George Hotz, released the Chestnut eGPU dock on Wednesday, a PCIe Gen4 x4 to USB4 bridge with open-source firmware available on GitHub under the tinygrad organization. Priced at $…
A developer argues that while they support LLMs and generative AI, the relationship people are building with these tools could make society less informed and more dependent on systems they don't under…
George Hotz at AMD Advancing AI 2026 argued that the next leap in AI is not bigger models but smarter utilization of existing compute, emphasizing tighter integration between model reasoning and hardw…
George Hotz's blog post 'AI 2040 and the Cult of Intelligence' argues against hard takeoff scenarios for AI, claiming intelligence is not the end-all and that machines are subject to physical and supp…
George Hotz's tinygrad claims to map PCIe Base Address Registers directly for NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, a low-level runtime approach that bypasses vendor driver APIs like CUDA and ROCm. The tinygrad runtim…
George Hotz, founder of tinygrad and comma.ai, published a July 12th blog post arguing that AI doom rhetoric is being used to justify high valuations for frontier AI labs, while the actual progress of…
Comma AI founder George Hotz argued in a blog post that AI alignment should prioritize locally controlled models aligned with individual users, even if that means helping users plan crimes like murder…
AI researcher George Hotz, founder of comma.ai and creator of TinyGrad, criticizes hype around artificial intelligence while expressing enthusiasm for LLMs, self-driving cars, and coding agents. He ar…
George Hotz, CEO of comma.ai, criticizes the AI 2040 report and the broader 'cult of intelligence' for overhyping AI capabilities, arguing that real-world hardware and supply chain challenges make a '…
Comma.ai CTO Harald Schaefer announced on July 7th that Anthropic is now a banned vendor at the autonomous-driving software company, citing concerns over user sovereignty and high usage costs. Schaefe…
George Hotz described AI-generated code as "slop," but a developer argues the real issue is how teams treat that output. The developer contends that AI excels at producing a plausible first draft—cove…