{"id":46893,"date":"2021-07-29T12:09:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T09:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=46893"},"modified":"2025-09-01T18:41:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:41:37","slug":"openai-releases-triton-a-python-like-language-for-neural-network-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/openai-releases-triton-a-python-like-language-for-neural-network-development\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI releases Triton, a Python-like language for neural-network development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI has released Triton, an open-source Python-like language for neural-network development.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We\u2019re releasing Triton 1.0, an open-source Python-like programming language for writing efficient GPU code. OpenAI researchers with no GPU programming experience have used Triton to produce kernels that are 2x faster than their PyTorch equivalents. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bdovUjTMuF\">https:\/\/t.co\/bdovUjTMuF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OpenAI (@OpenAI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OpenAI\/status\/1420417544528171008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The company says Triton will enable maximum hardware performance with minimal effort. With it, developers without CUDA experience can write highly efficient code executed on GPUs.<\/p>\n<p>The language is compatible with Python and has allowed researchers to complete in 25 lines a task that would normally require more effort and resources.<\/p>\n<p>Triton also simplifies the development of specialized kernels that can be far faster than general-purpose library equivalents. The compiler automatically optimizes and parallelizes code, transforming it for execution on Nvidia&#8217;s latest GPUs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cOur researchers have already used [Triton] to create kernels that are twice as efficient as their Torch equivalents. We are excited to work with the community to make GPU programming accessible to everyone,\u201d said Triton creator Philipp Tille.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The first version of the programming language is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/openai\/triton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">GitHub<\/a>. To date, it runs only on Nvidia hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Triton was first unveiled in 2019 at the International Seminar on Machine Learning and Programming Languages. Soon its creator Philipp Tille joined OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/openai-closes-its-robotics-division\"> OpenAI disbanded the robotics team<\/a> in July and halted attempts to apply AI to physical machines.<\/p>\n<p>In June, researchers from the organization<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/openai-curbs-bias-and-toxicity-in-gpt-3\"> OpenAI <\/a> discovered a way to improve the &#8216;behavior&#8217; of the GPT-3 language model with respect to ethical, moral and social values.<\/p>\n<p>In March, representatives from OpenAI stated that<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/openai-gpt-3-language-model-generates-4-5-billion-words-a-day\"> GPT-3 generates 4.5 billion words daily<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog News on Telegram:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogAI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> ForkLog AI<\/a> \u2014 all the news from the world of AI!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI has released a Python-like open-source programming language Triton for neural-network development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,1190],"class_list":["post-46893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-openai"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"28","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46894,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46893\/revisions\/46894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}