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While at Snapchat, Alex Zhang explored whether specialized GPU kernels could be written for the Infinite Attention paper.

Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026

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“so um they had a project where like they were interested in writing it was this paper called infinite attention it was like a google paper yes”
“yeah so i was interested in in whether or not you could write specialized kernels for it at snapchat um it didn't nothing really came of it but i joined gpu mode at the time it was called cuda mode uh i think for like legal reasons or something they changed the name”
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