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 Slang is a shading language that makes it easier to build and maintain large shader codebases in a modular and extensible fashion, while also maintaining the highest possible performance on modern GPUs and graphics APIs.
-Slang is based on years of collaboration between researchers at NVIDIA, Carnegie Mellon University, and Stanford.
+Slang is based on years of collaboration between researchers at NVIDIA, Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford and MIT.
 
 Key Features
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 * The Slang compiler can generate code for a wide variety of targets and APIs: D3D12, Vulkan, D3D11, OpenGL, CUDA, and CPU. Slang code can be broadly portable, but still take advantage of the unique features of each platform.
 
-* Parameter blocks (exposed as `ParameterBlock<T>`) provide a first-class language feature for grouping related shader parameters and specifying that they should be passed to the GPU as a coherent block. Parameter blocks make it easy for applications to use the most efficient parameter-binding model of each API, such as descriptor tables/sets in D3D12/Vulkan.
+* [Automatic differentiation](https://shader-slang.com/slang/user-guide/07-autodiff.html) as a first-class language feature. Slang can automatically generate both forward and backward derivative propagation code for complex functions that involve arbitrary control flow and dynamic dispatch. This allows users to easily make existing rendering codebases differentiable, or to use Slang as the kernel language in a PyTorch driven machine learning framework via [`slangpy`](https://shader-slang.com/slang/user-guide/a1-02-slangpy.html).
 
 * Generics and interfaces allow shader specialization to be expressed cleanly without resort to preprocessor techniques or string-pasting. Unlike C++ templates, Slang's generics are checked ahead of time and don't produce cascading error messages that are difficult to diagnose. The same generic shader can be specialized for a variety of different types to produce specialized code ahead of time, or on the fly, completely under application control.
 
 * Slang provides a module system that can be used to logically organize code and benefit from separate compilation. Slang modules can be compiled offline to a custom IR (with optional obfuscation) and then linked at runtime to generate DXIL, SPIR-V etc.
 
+* Parameter blocks (exposed as `ParameterBlock<T>`) provide a first-class language feature for grouping related shader parameters and specifying that they should be passed to the GPU as a coherent block. Parameter blocks make it easy for applications to use the most efficient parameter-binding model of each API, such as descriptor tables/sets in D3D12/Vulkan.
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 * Rather than require tedious explicit `register` and `layout` specifications on each shader parameter, Slang supports completely automate and deterministic assignment of binding locations to parameter. You can write simple and clean code and still get the deterministic layout your application wants.
 
 * For applications that want it, Slang provides full reflection information about the parameters of your shader code, with a consistent API across all target platforms and graphics APIs. Unlike some other compilers, Slang does not reorder or drop shader parameters based on how they are used, so you can always see the full picture.