Intel engineers today released OpenVINO 2024.4 as the newest version of their open-source AI toolkit. OpenVINO 2024.4 prepares for upcoming Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" processors, supports newer Gen AI models, now supports Python 3.12, and finally adds official support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

OpenVINO 2024.4 adds support for the GLM-4-9B Chat, MiniCPM-1B, Llama 3 and 3.1

LLVM 19.1 is out today as the first stable version of the LLVM 19 compiler stack including the Clang 19 C/C++ compiler.

There's a lot on the table with this six-month update to LLVM. Some of the LLVM 19 release highlights include:

- C++17 support is now considered complete with remaining feature support addressed.

- Various additional C++20 and C++23 features have been implemented and even a few C+

ClangIR is a new IR for LLVM's Clang compiler built atop MLIR. Thanks to this year's Google Summer of Code, there has been progress on being able to compile GPU kernels using ClangIR as another improvement for heterogeneous programming with this open-source compiler stack.

Student developer Zhi Ma took to the effort of enabling GPU kernel support with ClangIR over the summer. The project was centered around enabling OpenCL C language support in ClangIR that can then be targeted to SPIR-V for executing atop OpenCL/Vulkan drivers