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Whenever I see '17x faster than experts,' I read 'the experts didn't actually try very hard on the baseline.'

Well, most of our results are not 17x. But still (IMO) solid across the board! Also, the 17x came from a pretty obscure fusion optimization that isn't called out anywhere in the documentation (we had to run the profiler to see what was actually going on). Wouldn't be surprised if whoever within AWS wrote the kernel didn't know about that optimization.

17x is a wild improvement regardless of the baseline. Impressive results.

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I'd argue the logic goes the other way, if all it takes to get high performant kernels is to rent a GPU farm, that seems to undercut the years and millions of engineering hours required to build the NVIDIA SW infrastructure. High hopes for smaller players now
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