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…
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…
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…
Qualcomm acquired AI startup Modular for $3.9 billion on June 24, 2026, to challenge NVIDIA's CUDA software dominance with Modular's Mojo programming language and MAX inference engine, which enable AI…
Modular announced that MAX models can now run on Apple Silicon GPUs with the 26.4 release, supporting M1 through M5 chips for text LLMs, vision models, and image diffusion models. The company is worki…
Qualcomm acquired Modular for $3.9 billion in stock, gaining its Mojo programming language and MAX inference platform to challenge NVIDIA's CUDA dominance. The deal, expected to close in the second ha…
Qualcomm is acquiring Modular, the AI infrastructure startup founded by Chris Lattner and Tim Davis, for approximately $3.92 billion in stock. The deal, announced June 24, 2026, gives Qualcomm Modular…
MLIR, a compiler infrastructure framework, has become the foundation for numerous machine learning compilers including XLA, Triton, Mojo, Torch-MLIR, IREE, and ONNX-MLIR. It provides a reusable IR con…
Modular released version 26.4 of its platform, adding state-of-the-art mixture-of-experts (MoE) serving on Modular Cloud, support for new open-weight models like MiniMax M3 and GLM 5.2, and advancing …
Modular announced version 26.4 of its platform, featuring state-of-the-art Mixture-of-Experts serving, model bringup via agent skills, and the release of Mojo 1.0 Beta 2.…
Modular announced its annual developer conference ModCon 2026, themed 'Compute Unlocked,' will take place on August 18th in San Francisco. The event focuses on solving hardware scarcity by enabling AI…
Modular released the first beta of Mojo 1.0, a systems programming language that combines Python-like syntax with Rust-style memory safety and ownership. The language provides precise control over mem…
A developer built a production pastebin service called mobin using only the Mojo programming language, creating 10 supporting libraries and a documentation tool from scratch in a few weeks with AI cod…