Modular began accepting outside pull requests to the Mojo compiler with the release of Mojo 1.1 on September 17, roughly a month after the company open-sourced the compiler under Apache 2.0 with contr…
Qualcomm-owned Modular released Mojo 1.0 on August 11 with its first stability guarantees and open-sourced the compiler, toolchain, and standard library under Apache 2.0 with LLVM exceptions on August…
A developer argues that Mojo, which reached 1.0 in August 2026 and whose compiler and toolchain Modular open sourced under Apache 2.0 shortly after, is unlikely to replace Python for AI development bu…
Qualcomm completed its acquisition of Modular, an AI software company co-founded by compiler pioneer Chris Lattner, to break Nvidia's lock-in by enabling AI models to run across different hardware. Qu…
On 18 August 2026, Modular open-sourced the Mojo compiler and toolchain under Apache 2, enabling a head-to-head comparison with tile-rs, a Rust dialect for accelerator kernels that enforces type, conc…
Google released DiffusionGemma, an open-weight model that generates text in parallel 256-token blocks, achieving 1,500 tokens/second on a single H100, fine-tuned from Gemma 4 MoE (3.8B active / 25.2B …
At ModCon 2026, Modular unveiled new capabilities for its MAX platform, emphasizing openness and accelerator portability, allowing AI workloads to run across diverse hardware. The company also announc…
This week's COSS newsletter reports that Stripe is in talks to acquire OpenRouter for over $7 billion, Databricks acquired Electric, and Dynatrace acquired Arize. Temporal is reportedly raising $500 m…
Anthropic extended Claude Code's 50% weekly usage limit boost through August 31, 2026, after a nearly three-hour outage on Tuesday that affected Claude, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork.…
Qualcomm, which acquired Modular for $3.9 billion, has open-sourced the Mojo compiler and full toolchain under the Apache 2.0 license, announced Tuesday at ModCon 2026 in San Francisco. This removes t…
Modular open-sourced its Mojo programming language under the Apache 2.0 license on August 18, three weeks after Qualcomm completed its acquisition of the company, releasing the compiler and developer …
Qualcomm open-sourced the Mojo compiler on GitHub under Apache 2.0 with LLVM exceptions on Tuesday, three weeks after closing its $3.9 billion acquisition of Modular on 29 July. The move, which makes …
Qualcomm open-sourced its Modular AI software platform at ModCon 2026, making the Apache 2.0-licensed code available on GitHub. The move aims to create a cross-platform AI stack that runs on various h…
Modular announced at ModCon 2026 that its Mojo 1.0 programming language is now fully open source under the Apache 2.0 license, and its Modular Cloud is publicly available, serving customers like MiniM…
Modular shipped Mojo 1.0 on August 12 as part of its 26.5 release, marking the first production-ready version of its Python-syntax AI hardware language, with changes including uniform `var` syntax, a …
Modular shipped Mojo 1.0 on August 11 as part of the Modular 26.5 update, promising API stability for future 1.x releases. The update adds Python-like lambda syntax, standardized `var` and `Pointer` d…
MiniMax founder Junjie Yan announced that Morgan Suo, a senior go-to-market and key-account manager, will present its H3 video model at ModCon in San Francisco on August 18, targeting AI infrastructur…
Modular shipped Mojo 1.0, the AI-focused programming language, on August 12, 2026, promising a stable 1.x lifecycle with primarily additive changes. The release comes two weeks after Qualcomm complete…
Qualcomm completed its acquisition of AI software company Modular on July 29 in an all-stock transaction valued by Axios at $3.9 billion. Qualcomm said Mojo, MAX, and Modular Cloud will continue as pr…
Qualcomm acquired AI software infrastructure startup Modular for close to $4 billion, betting on an open, hardware-agnostic software stack that enables AI inference across heterogeneous silicon. Modul…