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Developers can now explore, modify, and extend the entire MAX stack. Building on our open source kernels, models, and serving infrastructure, this release opens the remaining core components that power MAX's heterogeneous capabilities: the graph compiler, runtime, and hardware backends. These include support for CPUs and GPUs.

The full source for MAX is now available: hardware backends, the graph compiler, the runtime, and more. Our new MAX License is intentionally permissive: you can use, modify, extend, and build commercial products with MAX, without licensing fees or royalties. If you've wanted to bring up MAX on your own accelerator, this is where to start, and you can see the existing implementation for NVIDIA, AMD, Apple Silicon, and CPUs as a reference point. We plan to release source for the MAX plugins for other chips, including Qualcomm Dragonfly and Google TPU, in the coming months.

Here are the projects we’re supporting right now:

Modular 26.6 is our first release since open sourcing the Mojo compiler at ModCon. With Mojo 1.1, we’re taking the next step in that journey by opening the compiler to external contributions and moving more of our development into the GitHub repository.

The Apache 2.0 license is the gold standard for programming languages and compilers, because it provides great flexibility to be used in all sorts of applications. The LLVM extensions to the license further expand those freedoms for building and distributing binaries compiled from Mojo. We want you to be able to adopt and use Mojo in as many applications as you can imagine.

Today during the ModCon keynote, we shared a major milestone in Modular's multi-silicon work: Qualcomm Technologies' data center AI accelerators are now integrated into the Modular Platform. Qualcomm Technologies has spent decades building high-performance, power-efficient compute, and has directed that expertise at purpose-built inference silicon designed for the best performance per dollar per watt. Developers can now reach this hardware through the same software stack they already run on NVIDIA and AMD GPUs. This milestone represents an early step towards a common software foundation spanning an even broader range of industry accelerators, from edge to cloud.

Four and a half years ago, Modular made a bet: AI would not run on one kind of silicon forever, and the software stack would need to be rearchitected for a world of heterogeneous hardware and increasingly complex AI workloads.

Today, the Mojo language officially reaches 1.0: a milestone the language has been building toward since its first release in 2023. Mojo has grown into a general-purpose language with a vibrant developer community writing their own libraries, tools, and applications on top of it. With Mojo 1.0, developers can now build for the long-term on a stable, production-ready language foundation.

Modular’s AI-native software platform complements Qualcomm Technologies’ solutions to accelerate generative and agentic AI technologies from edge to cloud.

NEW YORK – June 24, 2026 – Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), a connected computing leader at the center of the AI era, today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Modular Inc, strengthening Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.’s software foundation for generative and agentic AI across data center and edge environments.