If AMD were smart(er), their cpu's are awesome at least... They would team up with intel, google, apple, etc to create a machine learning open cuda alternative, such that all GPU's could essentially be used by ML software equally, I think Nvidia's real hold on AI is that most AI libs use CUDA, and nobody else can really compete when all the tools use X, it's like if firefox launched with their own different HTML syntax because HTML was proprietary, and every other browser did the same thing.
Something like chrome : chromium dynamic would work wonders for bringing a sort of standard, not to mention more minds could create better and better implementations.
They did try, apple made OpenCL and released it to khronos to make a standard, but never got wide support(well, they got plenty of manufacturers on board, not so much users).
By that time nvidia already had an advantage with CUDA and their opencl support always lagged.
Something like chrome : chromium dynamic would work wonders for bringing a sort of standard, not to mention more minds could create better and better implementations.