Intel Releases OpenVINO 2026.1 With Backend For Llama.cpp, New Hardware Support

Intel Releases OpenVINO 2026.1 With Backend For Llama.cpp, New Hardware Support

Intel’s OpenVINO toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inferencing across their range of hardware platforms is out with its newest quarterly feature update. There is official support for Intel’s latest hardware as well as enabling more large language models and other new AI innovations for this excellent open-source Intel software project… https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenVINO-2026.1-Released