NVIDIA AI Just Released cuda-oxide: An Experimental Rust-to-CUDA Compiler Backend that Compiles SIMT GPU Kernels Directly to PTX

NVIDIA AI open-sourced cuda-oxide, an experimental Rust compiler backend for NVIDIA GPUs.

It compiles SIMT GPU kernels written in Rust directly to PTX, using rustc public MIR and LLVM’s NVPTX backend.

The project is meant to complement existing Rust GPU tooling, not replace it.

If it matures, developers could write safer, standard Rust for CUDA-style kernels and lower the barrier to GPU programming.