Stack
JAX is for functional, accelerator-focused computation
- Flax: model authoring
- Optax: composable optimizers
- Orbax large-scale asynchronous checkpointing
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Jax Notion
Jax Usages
- Infrastructure: XLA (operation fusion & memory optimization), Pathways (tens of thousands of chips distributed & fault recovery).
- Advanced Tools: Pallas/(custom & optimal kernels), Qwix (non-invasive quantization), Jax Grain (reproducible data pipelines).tokamaxopenxla • Updated 2026 Jan 6 0:34
- End-to-End: MaxText/MaxDiffusion (pre-training), Tunix (FT), vLLM JAX TPU backend.
Impact: Real-world cases show significant throughput & cost efficiency improvements (e.g., Kakao 2.7× throughput with XPK).
JAX AI Stack — JAX AI Stack
JAX AI Stack tested releases provide high reliability by ensuring compatibility across its libraries
https://jaxstack.ai/
Google for Developers Blog - News about Web, Mobile, AI and Cloud
Introducing the JAX AI Stack: a modular, end-to-end, production-ready platform built on JAX and co-designed with Cloud TPUs for scalable ML.
https://developers.googleblog.com/building-production-ai-on-google-cloud-tpus-with-jax/

Kakao’s journey with JAX and Cloud TPUs | Google Cloud Blog
Kakao’s approach provides a compelling example of the high-performance array computing framework JAX for AI model development at scale.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure-modernization/kakaos-journey-with-jax-and-cloud-tpus

Programming
Programming TPUs in JAX | How To Scale Your Model
How to use JAX to program TPUs efficiently! Much of this section is taken from <a href='https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/jep/14273-shard-map.html'>here</a>.
https://jax-ml.github.io/scaling-book/jax-stuff/
Jax for Pytorch
A guide to JAX for PyTorch developers | Google Cloud Blog
PyTorch users can learn about JAX in this tutorial that connects JAX concepts to the PyTorch building blocks that they’re already familiar with.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/guide-to-jax-for-pytorch-developers


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