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Howard: Mojo-like languages will unlock thousands of FlashAttention-scale breakthroughs
“There is a thousand flash attentions out there for us to build. You just got to make it easy for us to build them. So like Triton definitely helps. But it's still, Not easy. You know, it still requires kind of really understanding the VPU architecture, writing…”
Patel: Hardware vendors and developers are coalescing around OpenAI's Triton
“Likewise, there's OpenAI's Triton, like, what they're trying to do there, and like you know, everyone's really coalescing around Triton. You know, people, you know, third-party hardware vendors”
AI coding assistants degrade quickly on low-level CUDA and PTX code
“Getting Below Triton or level or anything else down to like CUDA or below there's orders of magnitude less public good kernels at that level. And I think that really shows and models capabilities. So when I try and get a model to do something in CUDA or PTX or…”
Bachman: Manifest Switched Power Retention from Triton to Custom CUDA
“Actually, our initial version of power retention was written in Triton, but we realized quickly that it just didn't offer the flexibility to really squeeze the performance that we wanted out of the GPU. So we took a step back and dove into CUDA.”