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 PCIe Gen4 X4 to USB4 dock with open-source firmware, enabling GPU access over USB connections and macOS support via TinyGPU. The dock allows users to connect to a compute…
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…
A developer outlines a 3-5 month plan to build a deep learning framework from scratch, culminating in a 'Tiny Transformer,' arguing that implementing an autodiff engine, tensor engine, and optimizer f…
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…
A prominent software developer has declared that integrating AI agents into software development will be one of the field's costliest mistakes, arguing the tools produce broken code that is increasing…