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…
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…
Qualcomm completed its all-stock acquisition of Modular, the AI infrastructure company behind the Mojo programming language, on July 29, 2026. Modular co-founder and CEO Chris Lattner becomes Qualcomm…
AMD's Advancing AI 2026 summit in San Francisco featured a panel with Chris Lattner, Ramin Hasani, and Hassan Akbari. Lattner, creator of LLVM, called AI 'mid,' arguing that the current AI surface lay…
Modular, following its acquisition by Qualcomm, is hiring for multiple engineering roles including AI Library Architect, Mojo Compiler Engineer, and Hardware Enablement Engineer to advance its AI infr…
Qualcomm acquired AI startup Modular for $3.92 billion to gain its Mojo programming language and MAX inference engine, aiming to break NVIDIA's CUDA lock-in by enabling hardware-agnostic AI code. The …
Modular has published a roadmap for the Mojo programming language, outlining its evolution from a prototype kernel DSL to a high-performance language for CPU and GPU coding, with plans to open-source …
Qualcomm unveiled a high-bandwidth compute architecture at its 2026 investor day, aiming to challenge NVIDIA and AMD in the AI datacenter market. The AI250-series Dragonfly rack systems, featuring sta…