Max Developer Edition Preview

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27 points·ashvardanian··10 comments

Pretty bold to launch a product that is an AI runtime sold as "delivering immediate performance gains" with GPU support "coming soon".

Also, Mojo is nowhere near "the first language built from the ground up for AI development". It might be the first built from the ground up targeting the current popular flavors of AI approaches, but...that's a much less impressive statement.

This is because they target MLIR.

I'm having trouble figuring out what MAX is from the website. Would someone please chime in?

MAX is a runtime for serving neural networks. It’s designed by Modular, tightly integrated with the Mojo programming language, and the MLIR/LLVM compiler ecosystem.

> MAX comes in two editions -- a free Developer Edition for local development and experimentation, and an Enterprise Edition for production usage.

A product, in charitable terms.

'max' and 'modular' made me think it was something Cycling'74 related at first, but it's not that, damned name collisions.

I think they bought HBO a couple years back.

Still no GPU support. They are nowhere near a MVP.

> Mojo: The world’s first programming language built from the ground up for AI development

John McCarthy has entered the chat.

Well actually seems like Allen Newell, Cliff Shaw, and Herbert A. Simon need to enter the chat

> Information Processing Language was the first AI language, from 1955 or 1956, and already included many of the concepts, such as list-processing and recursion, which came to be used in Lisp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)#Hi...

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