[HN Gopher] Max Developer Edition Preview
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       Max Developer Edition Preview
        
       Author : ashvardanian
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2024-02-29 19:10 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.modular.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.modular.com)
        
       | givemeethekeys wrote:
       | I'm having trouble figuring out what MAX is from the website.
       | Would someone please chime in?
        
         | ashvardanian wrote:
         | 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.
        
         | smoldesu wrote:
         | > 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.
        
         | NikkiA wrote:
         | 'max' and 'modular' made me think it was something Cycling'74
         | related at first, but it's not that, damned name collisions.
        
       | bitwize wrote:
       | > Mojo: The world's first programming language built from the
       | ground up for AI development
       | 
       | John McCarthy has entered the chat.
        
         | frfl wrote:
         | 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...
        
       | tehsauce wrote:
       | Still no GPU support. They are nowhere near a MVP.
        
       | dragonwriter wrote:
       | 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.
        
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