NVIDIA AI Just Released cuda-oxide: An Experimental Rust-to-CUDA Compiler Backend that Compiles SIMT GPU — 2026-05-10
NVIDIA AI has released cuda-oxide, an experimental compiler backend that allows developers to write CUDA SIMT GPU kernels in Rust. This tool compiles Rust code directly to PTX, NVIDIA's intermediate representation for GPUs, eliminating the need for C++ or other languages.