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 …
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 …
Modular Inc. has open-sourced the Mojo programming language compiler and toolchain under the Apache 2.0 license with LLVM exceptions, making the full source code available in its GitHub repository. Th…
Modular Inc. announced at ModCon that Qualcomm Technologies' data center AI accelerators, starting with the Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 and extending to Qualcomm Dragonfly AI 200 and future generations, are…
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…
Google is rolling out ChromeOS 151 (version 16733.48.0, browser version 151.0.7922.141) to Chromebooks and ChromeOS Flex devices on the Stable channel, adding a bookmark bar auto-hide option, real-tim…
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…
Mojo nightly introduces compiler optimizations that speed up compilation of files with large collection literals by about 1.3x, renames the @parameter decorator to @__parameter, and adds namespace sem…
A 15-year-old developer from Germany, known as Mojo, has built an integer-only AI in Rust that achieves 99.7% accuracy on the XOR problem, with 98.7% of runs being perfect. The project, called ABSL (A…
Qualcomm closed its all-stock acquisition of Modular Inc. on July 29, 2026, issuing up to 19.2 million shares valued at approximately $3.9 billion, gaining Modular's CUDA-independent AI software stack…
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 Incorporated completed its acquisition of Modular Inc. on July 29, roughly five weeks after announcing the deal on June 24, adding AI-native software infrastructure to its compute portfolio. …
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…
Qualcomm Incorporated completed its acquisition of Modular Inc, an AI-native software infrastructure company, on July 29, 2026. The deal combines Modular's software platform with Qualcomm Technologies…
AMD's Advancing AI 2026 event highlighted a strategy to bypass NVIDIA's CUDA moat through architecture, as argued by Chris Lattner, creator of LLVM, who also claimed AI is "mid" to emphasize that the …
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…
Developer Millfolio launched a local-first AI tool that runs entirely on Mac, inverting the typical data-to-model flow by sending a program to the user's data instead. The system uses a local model fo…