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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/BestRetroGames on 2025-01-30 15:01:29+00:00.
💾 As a hobby programmer since the days of BASIC, I find this, little discussed fact about DeepSeek the most fascinating. This is just legendary. Reminds me of the old days where any serious programming had to be done in Assembly to ensure maximum performance on the very limited HW we had.
"DeepSeek's AI breakthrough bypasses industry-standard CUDA for some functions, uses Nvidia's assembly-like PTX programming instead.Nvidia's PTX (Parallel Thread Execution) is an intermediate instruction set architecture designed by Nvidia for its GPUs. PTX sits between higher-level GPU programming languages (like CUDA C/C++ or other language frontends) and the low-level machine code (streaming assembly, or SASS). PTX is a close-to-metal ISA that exposes the GPU as a data-parallel computing device and, therefore, allows fine-grained optimizations, such as register allocation and thread/warp-level adjustments, something that CUDA C/C++ and other languages cannot enable."