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한국어(KO) RT @MachgenAI: 𝖶𝖾 𝗁𝖺𝗏𝖾 𝗃𝗎𝗌𝗍 𝗈𝗉𝖾𝗇-𝗌𝗈𝗎𝗋𝖼𝖾𝖽 𝗈𝗎𝗋 𝗏𝖺𝗋𝗂𝖺𝗇𝗍 𝗈𝖿 𝖵𝖢 𝖠𝗍𝗍𝖾𝗇𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇 𝖿𝗈𝗋 𝖭𝖵𝖨𝖣𝖨𝖠 𝖡𝗅𝖺𝖼𝗄𝗐𝖾𝗅𝗅: 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝟮× 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗙𝟭𝟲 𝗙𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗕𝟮𝟬…

MiniMax AI open-sources faster Nvidia Blackwell attention variant

MiniMax AI has open-sourced a variant of VC Attention optimized for Nvidia Blackwell B200 hardware. This new implementation reportedly achieves approximately double the speed of BF16 FlashAttention on the B200, offering significant performance gains for models like MiniMax's own. AI

IMPACT This optimized attention mechanism could accelerate training and inference for large models on Nvidia's Blackwell platform.

RANK_REASON Open-source release of an attention mechanism variant for specific hardware. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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MiniMax AI open-sources faster Nvidia Blackwell attention variant

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  1. X — MiniMax AI TIER_1 한국어(KO) · MiniMax_AI ·

    RT @MachgenAI: We have just open-sourced our variant of VC Attention for NVIDIA Blackwell: about 2× the speed of BF16 FlashAttention on B20…

    RT @MachgenAI: 𝖶𝖾 𝗁𝖺𝗏𝖾 𝗃𝗎𝗌𝗍 𝗈𝗉𝖾𝗇-𝗌𝗈𝗎𝗋𝖼𝖾𝖽 𝗈𝗎𝗋 𝗏𝖺𝗋𝗂𝖺𝗇𝗍 𝗈𝖿 𝖵𝖢 𝖠𝗍𝗍𝖾𝗇𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇 𝖿𝗈𝗋 𝖭𝖵𝖨𝖣𝖨𝖠 𝖡𝗅𝖺𝖼𝗄𝗐𝖾𝗅𝗅: 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝟮× 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗙𝟭𝟲 𝗙𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗕𝟮𝟬…