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 $…
Comma.ai launched chestnut, a compute upgrade for its comma four device, enabling openpilot to run a new 1B parameter driving model that is 30x larger and uses 100x more FLOPs than previous on-device …
Tinygrad, the 17,000-line Python deep learning framework behind comma.ai's openpilot self-driving system, represents all tensor operations as UOps (universal operations) and uses lazy evaluation, defe…
Comma.ai's openpilot driver-assistance system has been plagued by bugs that caused dangerous driving behaviors, including drifting right, detecting false lanelines, and cutting turns, all traced to fl…
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…
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…
Anthropic has been banned as a vendor at comma_ai, with the company's founder recommending other firms follow suit and warning against over-reliance on cloud token vendors.…
A critic argues that the AI industry's focus on existential risk is a hype-driven strategy to justify inflated valuations, contrasting technical progress at companies like Z.ai and comma.ai with alarm…
Cory Doctorow argues that since 2008, policymakers have consistently chosen to decouple money from real value, leading to inflated asset prices and speculative bubbles. He cites the rise of meme stock…