Open kernels are clearly written for Blackwell, hinting inference already runs on BW
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-11-13
In a brief exchange, one party notes that recent open-sourced infra and kernel code from labs is clearly written for Blackwell; the other agrees but says this doesn't demonstrate pretraining of existing models on BW — inference is the more obvious case. A fragmentary but signal-bearing industry observation.
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