Rui Ueyama released Mold 2.37 today as the newest feature update to this high performance linker as an alternative to GNU Gold and LLVM LLD.

Mold 2.37 begins making preparations for Intel's upcoming Advanced Performance Extensions (APX). The updated Mold linker now handles the R_X86_64_CODE_4_{GOTPCRELX,GOTTPOFF,GOTPC32_TLSDESC} and R_X86_64_CODE_6_GOTTPOFF relocation types. These relocations

Another announcement at AMD today beyond the open-source Linux driver fun for the Radeon RX 9070 series is announcing the open-sourcing of Instella as their new fully open 3B parameter language models.

AMD Instella represents "fully open state-of-the-art 3-billion-parameter language models (LMs)." These models were trained on AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs and according to AMD's published data delivers competitive performance to the likes of Llama 3.2 3B

Released last year shortly after the EPYC 9005 "Turin" processor launch was ZenDNN 5.0 for Zen 5 optimized CPU inferencing with the likes of PyTorch and TensorFlow. ZenDNN 5.0 delivers up to a 400% performance uplift according to AMD engineers. Out today is ZenDNN 5.0.1 with further optimizations, particularly around recommendation engines and large language models (LLMs).

ZenDNN 5.0.1 is a small update focused on further pushing the performance envelope for recommender systems and

LLVM 20.1 was just tagged in Git as the first stable version of the LLVM 20 compiler stack including sub-projects like the Clang 20 C/C++ Compiler.

LLVM/Clang 20.1 is the newest half-year feature release for this prominent open-source compiler stack that is widely used by many different vendors for a variety of purposes from traditional C/C++ compilation to being heavily used for GPU compute stacks, growing AI uses with MLIR, and much more

Rustup 1.28 is out today as the newest version of this official tool that is the Rust project's recommended means of installing the Rust programming language support.

With it being one year since the prior release, Rustup 1.28 is made up of a lot of improvements and other changes over this time. Of note is Rustup 1.28 adding new host platform support. The first new platform support is aarch64-pc-windows-msvc for Windows AArch64 (ARM6

Back in 2023 ONNX and AMD announced TurnkeyML as an "AI insights toolchain" . There hasn't been too much news about TurnkeyML since then and they now describe the project itself as a "no-code AI toolchain" while this week brought the release of the big TurnkeyML 6.0 software.

TurnkeyML aims to make it easy to leverage the tools within the ONNX ecosystem via "no-code CLIs and low-code APIs" with their Turnkey optimizer and Lemonade SDK for large language models (

Chinese AI company DeepSeek made public this week 3FS, a Linux FUSE-based file-system intended for allowing better AI training and inference performance.

The DeepSeek 3FS Fire-Flyer File-System is a distributed file-system designed to leverage modern solid-state drives and RDMA networks for a better AI training and inference experience. 3FS relies on FUSE for user-space based file-system support and aims to make it easier to deploy large-scale AI training/inference clusters with shared storage.

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