Today, frontier AI workloads are too often limited to one vendor’s silicon. Enabling a full AI stack is costly and repetitive, and AI developers suffer from a fragmented software ecosystem because of a lack of standards at the bottom of the stack.
The Modular alliance program is building “LLVM, but for AI”: making it easier than ever before to enable a competitive software stack for every type of compute. It includes a conformance testing ecosystem to ensure a compatible ecosystem that unlocks choice for all developers.
Modular has been building a next-generation AI platform, and now it’s open. It includes the Mojo language and the MAX AI framework, which make it easier than ever before to enable new hardware and unlock the power of the chips you already have.
Modular recently joined Qualcomm, which opened up the Modular stack and wants to catalyze even more innovation across the entire domain, enabling everyone to build better products.
LLVM turned monolithic compiler stacks with little reusability into a modular and reusable ecosystem of technologies that the whole industry builds on. AI has nothing like it: every hardware vendor has to implement the full AI stack for its own chips.
The leading companies provide good software, some better and some worse, but none of it’s compatible with the rest, so work done in one vendor’s stack doesn’t extend to the others. The Modular alliance program applies the LLVM model to AI compute and adds conformance testing: a unified software layer, built in common, strict in the core, neutral at both ends, and compatible across every kind of compute.
This is an industry-wide challenge, and no single company can crack it alone. We want AI labs, silicon partners, deployers and developers to build one common platform together. Every turn of the wheel enables the AI ecosystem as a whole to move even faster, particularly for innovators at the frontier.
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