Intel today released their open-source OpenVINO 2024.0 toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inference across a range of hardware.

OpenVINO is Intel's wonderful open-source AI toolkit for speeding up AI inferencing across not only x86_64 CPUs but also ARM CPUs and other architectures, Intel integrated and discrete graphics, and more -- including their recent NPU plug-in for leveraging the Intel Neural Processing Unit found with new Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" SoCs.

With today's

Out today is the big LLVM/Clang 18.1 release. Due to shifting to a new versioning scheme like GCC , today's LLVM 18.1 release is the first major stable release in the new series for what previously would have been called LLVM 18.0.

LLVM/Clang 18.1 is the newest six-month feature update to this open-source compiler stack. There's new Intel ISA support as well as new targets for Intel CPUs being released in the future

Xiph.Org's Opus open-source audio format for lossy audio coding has rolled out Opus 1.5 as a big update that is now making greater use of machine learning.

Opus 1.5 brings a "serious machine learning upgrade" per today's release announcement. The 1.5 demo page sums up the greater machine learning use as:

"This 1.5 release is unlike any of the previous ones. It brings many new features that can improve quality and the general audio experience. That