# OpenAI — Introducing Triton: Open-source GPU programming for neural networks

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2021-07-28T07:00:00+00:00
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://openai.com/index/triton
- Record: https://forck.live/items/930-introducing-triton-open-source-gpu-programming-for-neural-networks
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- License: open-source

OpenAI releases Triton 1.0, an open-source Python-like programming language for GPU programming, enabling researchers without CUDA experience to write efficient GPU code.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/triton:

> We’re releasing Triton 1.0, an open-source Python-like programming language which enables researchers with no CUDA experience to write highly efficient GPU code—most of the time on par with what an expert would be able to produce.

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