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Why ML Needs a New Programming Language with Chris Lattner

Why ML Needs a New Programming Language with Chris Lattner

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Chris Lattner is the creator of LLVM and led the development of
the Swift language at Apple. With Mojo, he’s taking another big
swing: How do you make the process of getting the full power out
of modern GPUs productive and fun? In this episode, Ron and Chris
discuss how to design a language that’s easy to use while still
providing the level of control required to write state of the art
kernels. A key idea is to ask programmers to fully reckon with
the details of the hardware, but making that work manageable and
shareable via a form of type-safe metaprogramming. The aim is to
support both specialization to the computation in question as
well as to the hardware platform. “Somebody has to do this work,”
Chris says, “if we ever want to get to an ecosystem where one
vendor doesn’t control everything.”

You can find the transcript for this episode on our website.

Some links to topics that came up in the discussion:

Democratizing AI compute (an 11-part series)

Modular AI

Mojo

MLIR

Swift