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[AINews] Megakernels are so dead and so back

A technical debate among AI infrastructure engineers about the declining practical relevance of 'megakernels'—monolithic fused GPU kernels for inference—amid emerging hardware (e.g., NVIDIA Rubin) and software optimizations that favor modular, composable kernel execution.

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Aug 6, 2026

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01 No serious inference provider is using a 67k loc hand-fused forward pass kernel in production, and the teams doing that are doing so out of pure research.

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