They reverse-engineered a $1B-funded megakernel demo from video frames and open-sourced it
erikphoel · x · 2026-11-03
@realarnoldxu and @Bobliuuu open-sourced their reproduction of the flappyairplanes megakernel — a single GPU kernel that trains a model, serves it, and plays Doom simultaneously, on the back of which the original team raised $1B. Notably, they reproduced it purely from video frames. Reposters frame it as proof AI is turning culture into a dark forest.
Related event: Open-Source Recreation of Single-Kernel Training, Inference and Doom(2 posts)→
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