Max Xu

Max Xu is a senior technical lead at NVIDIA specializing in AI training and inference at scale, performance engineering, and end-to-end application deployment. He brings full-stack GPU expertise spanning from chip design, CUDA and kernel-level development to server and cloud for model training and inference, translating innovations into real-world impact. Before NVIDIA, Max worked in engineering roles across major CSP and semiconductor companies.
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Agentic AI / Generative AI Jun 08, 2026

Train Models Faster with JAX and MaxText Using NVFP4 on NVIDIA Blackwell

Pre-training frontier LLMs comes down to throughput. When training spans trillions of tokens across thousands of accelerators, every percentage point of step... 7 MIN READ
Developer Tools & Techniques Oct 07, 2025

Pruning and Distilling LLMs Using NVIDIA TensorRT Model Optimizer

Large language models (LLMs) have set a high bar in natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as coding, reasoning, and math. However, their deployment... 11 MIN READ