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23 Jul 2026 · AI Beat Desk

Tokenizing at GB/s

Marcel Røed released GigaToken, a Rust tokenizer using SIMD and cache-optimized byte-pair encoding that runs 500–1,000× faster than HuggingFace's tokenizers and up to 681× faster than tiktoken — reaching 24 GB/s on a single CPU.

12 May 2026 · AI Beat Desk

NVIDIA's cuda-oxide Wants GPU Kernels Written in Rust

NVIDIA's NVlabs released cuda-oxide v0.1.0 on May 7, an experimental compiler that takes standard Rust and emits NVIDIA PTX directly — no CUDA C++, no DSLs, no foreign language bindings. The pipeline goes through a custom rustc codegen backend and a Rust-native MLIR-like IR called Pliron. Alpha-stage and Linux-only, but it signals where NVIDIA thinks GPU kernel development might eventually land.