Fable 5 Tops KernelBench, Potentially Sparking an RSI Loop
manubfr · reddit · 2026-07-06
According to Import AI, Fable 5 submitted the first truly viable (and fastest) megakernel on KernelBench-Mega: writing CUDA code on an RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell to achieve an 18.71x speedup (compared to an optimized PyTorch baseline). For comparison, Claude Opus 4.8 writing Triton achieved 14.4x, GLM-5.2 at 11.14x, and GPT 5.5 at 4.34x.
Even more crucial is the implementation quality: torch.profiler shows only a single cooperative kernel launch per decoded token, whereas other high-scoring solutions require splitting the problem into 4 to 14 kernel launches. Jack Clark described this as "the start of a recursive self-improvement (RSI) loop," emphasizing that autonomous kernel design is a foundational task for AI R&D automation.
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