Modular 2025 Year in Review — AMD MI355X SOTA & MAX Open Source

AI Impact Summary

Modular announced significant achievements in 2025, primarily centered around expanding hardware support and open-sourcing key components of the MAX framework. Notably, they achieved state-of-the-art performance on AMD MI355X within two weeks and set performance records on NVIDIA Blackwell, demonstrating the platform's adaptability to new hardware. The open-sourcing of the Mojo standard library and MAX kernels represents a major step towards developer adoption and customization.