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FASTER MOE TRAINING WITH CUSTOM CUDA KERNELS

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Cursor rebuilt the Mixture-of-Experts layer from scratch using CUDA and PTX, achieving a 3.5x speedup in MoE operations. This resulted in a 1.5x end-to-end training speedup on Blackwell GPUs compared to Hopper.