A new AI company called Modular is promising to deliver a new matrix-multiplication library/API or something similar. More in their two blog posts:
- AI’s compute fragmentation: what matrix multiplication teaches us
- The world’s fastest unified matrix multiplication
According to an announcement on their website, in a video-stream on May 2 we can expect to learn about
“The world’s fastest unified AI execution engine
A new programming language that gives Python superpowers
A new way to unlock hardware”
The co-founder and CEO of the company is Chris Lattner, known for his work on LLVM, Clang, MLIR, and the Swift programming language.
Can we really expect a matrix library, faster then the vendor versions? If yes, when will all the recent develompents trickle down to Fortran?