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Modular beat Intel MKL matrix multiplication speed in its first year
“First year was prove compilation philosophy. And so this was writing very abstract compiler stuff. And then prove that we can make a matrix multiplication go faster than Intel MKL's matrix multiplication on Intel Silicon and make it configurable and multiple D…”
Chris Lattner Jun 13, 2025 ▶ 7:06 The Shape of Compute (Chris Lattner of Modular)
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First-time Mojo developers built a GPU training system in one day
“The winning team for the hackathon took that four person team. And one day they had not used Mojo before they hadn't programmed GPUs before. And they had built a training system. They wrote an atom optimizer, a bunch of training kernels. They built a simple ba…”
Chris Lattner Jun 13, 2025 ▶ 6:06 The Shape of Compute (Chris Lattner of Modular)
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Modular has open-sourced 650,000 lines of Mojo code
“Modular is Mojo's first customer. Like we have more Mojo code in our repository than any other language. And it's open source. Like, and we open source like 650,000 lines of Mojo code.”
Chris Lattner Jun 13, 2025 ▶ 47:44 The Shape of Compute (Chris Lattner of Modular)
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