Gluon: When Triton Isn't Low-Level Enough
After diving deep into PyTorch, Triton, CUDA, and PTX, I discovered Gluon - Triton's answer to the performance gap that even Triton can't always bridge. Here's what I learned.
Hello! My name is Matt Suiche. I work on AI Security at Tolmo, and I also experiment with side projects in AI Safety (Weightless, etc.) and Emulation & Operating System Research (WASM PSX, WASM NanoKrnl, etc.). I recently discussed cyberwar in the age of AI, Iran’s cyber capabilities, and how AI is reshaping hacking on Bloomberg’s Odd Lots and the National Security Lab podcast.
Previously, I founded OnDB Inc., a data infrastructure startup for the agentic economy, and co-founded CloudVolumes (acquired by VMware in 2014) and Comae Technologies (acquired by Magnet Forensics in 2022), where I later served as Head of Detection Engineering. I also founded the cybersecurity community project OPCDE.
My path into technology started in reverse engineering as a teenager, and has since spanned memory forensics, operating systems, virtualization, blockchain, and now AI infrastructure.
After diving deep into PyTorch, Triton, CUDA, and PTX, I discovered Gluon - Triton's answer to the performance gap that even Triton can't always bridge. Here's what I learned.
Another day, another zero-day. This time it’s CVE-2025-21043, a critical vulnerability in Android’s DNG image parser that’s been actively exploited in the wild. What makes this one particularly interesting is how it leverages an obscure …
This tweet from Awni Hannun demonstrates in one line of MLX code the nondeterminism phenomenon detailed in Thinking Machines’ research. We will explore the PyTorch equivalent that reveals a fundamental issue in AI systems, because I’ve …