What about OpenCL and CUDA C++ alternatives? (modular.com) AI

The article argues that CUDA-friendly alternatives like OpenCL, SYCL, and oneAPI failed to become dominant for AI because committee “coopetition” slowed evolution, implementations fragmented without shared reference runtimes, and modern AI needs (e.g., key tensor-core support and high-performance libraries) weren’t met, leaving performance gaps versus CUDA that frameworks like TensorFlow and PyTorch reinforced.