The tiny corp raised $5.1M
For background, "geohot", is George Hotz, who's a known hacker / tech personality[0]<p>This project fits the pattern of his previous projects: he gets excited about the currently hot thing in tech, makes his own knockoff version, generates a ton of buzz in the tech press for it, and then it fizzles out because he doesn't have the resources or attention span to actually make something at that scale.<p>In 2016, Tesla and self-driving cars led to his comma one project ("I could build a better vision system than Tesla autopilot in 3 months"). In 2020, Ethereum got hot and so he created "cheapETH". In 2022 it was Elon's Twitter, which led him to "fixing Twitter search". And in 2023 it's NVIDIA.<p>I'd love to see an alternative to CUDA / NVIDIA so I hope this one breaks the pattern, but I'd be very, very careful before giving him a deposit.<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz</a>