GPU programming stories

Aug 18, 2026

ByteDance and Tsinghua AIR release CUDA Agent for GPU kernel generation

ByteDance Seed and Tsinghua AIR have introduced CUDA Agent, an agentic reinforcement learning system that trains large language models to write GPU kernels capable of outperforming traditional compilers.

Aug 18, 20261 source

May 11, 2026

NVIDIA Releases cuda-oxide: Experimental Rust-to-CUDA Compiler

NVIDIA's research lab released cuda-oxide v0.1.0, a custom Rust compiler backend that compiles GPU kernels directly to PTX through a novel compilation pipeline. The experimental tool enables Rust developers to write CUDA kernels natively.

May 11, 20261 source