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-This may not be the best deep learning framework, but it is a deep learning framework.
+Despite tinygrad's size, it is a fully featured deep learning framework.
 
-Due to its extreme simplicity, it aims to be the easiest framework to add new accelerators to, with support for both inference and training. If XLA is CISC, tinygrad is RISC.
+Due to its extreme simplicity, it is the easiest framework to add new accelerators to, with support for both inference and training. If XLA is CISC, tinygrad is RISC.
 
-tinygrad is still alpha software, but we [raised some money](https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2023/05/24/the-tiny-corp-raised-5M.html) to make it good. Someday, we will tape out chips.
+tinygrad is now beta software, we [raised some money](https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2023/05/24/the-tiny-corp-raised-5M.html) to make it good. Someday, we will tape out chips.
 
 ## Features