Matrix Multiply

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Rao: Unconventional AI is building a substrate superior to matrix multiplication

“We are trying to build a better substrate than matrix multiply.”

Naveen Rao Dec 8, 2025 ▶ 20:46 The Chip That Could Unlock AGI.

LATENT SPACE Assertion Supported

FlashAttention-2 is twice as fast as FlashAttention-1

“We managed to make it to X faster. And now it's pretty close to probably the efficiency of things like matrix multiply, which probably this, the most optimized subroutine on the planet.”

Tri Dao Aug 3, 2023 ▶ 33:01 FlashAttention-2: Making Transformers 800% faster AND exact

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