Mojo 1 0 Just Dropped 35 000x Faster Than Python

Python is slow. Chris Lattner — the guy who built Swift — just shipped Mojo 1.0 beta, claiming 35,000× speedups and a real escape hatch from CUDA. Here’s what actually shipped May 7, 2026, and what’s still missing.. . We audit the headline 35,000× number (spoiler: it’s a Mandelbrot-only result), walk the real wins — TileTensor compile-time GPU layouts, deprecation of `fn`, non-null `UnsafePointer`, mandatory bounds checks — and call out the elephant in the room: the compiler is still closed source. Verdict: Mojo isn’t the Python killer, it’s the CUDA escape hatch. And that might be more interesting.. . TIMESTAMPS. 0:00 – Intro. 0:15 – What shipped May 7. 0:38 – The 35,000× audit. 1:13 – TileTensor + GPU silicon. 1:38 – Mojo stops cosplaying Python. 2:08 – What’s missing — closed source. 2:29 – Who should actually care. 2:51 – Verdict — CUDA escape hatch. . LINKS u0026 RESOURCES. – https://www.modular.com/blog/modular-26-3-mojo-1-0-beta-max-video-gen-and-more. – https://mojolang.org/releases/v1.0.0b1/. – https://mojolang.org/docs/. – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojo_(programming_language). – https://github.com/modular/modular. – https://gist.github.com/eugeneyan/1d2ea70fed81662271f784034cc30b73. – https://shashankprasanna.com/benchmarking-modular-mojo-and-pytorch-torch.compile-on-mandelbrot-function/index.html. – https://github.com/maxim-saplin/mandelbrot. – https://forum.modular.com/t/modular-26-3-mojo-1-0-beta-mojolang-org-max-video-gen-and-more/3038. . TAGS. #Mojo #ChrisLattner #PythonAlternative #GpuProgramming #AiInfra