5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (261+ words) NVIDIA has posted patches introducing a vGPU manager and a VFIO variant driver for its developing open-source Nova graphics driver, targeting virtualised GPU workloads. NVIDIA continues to expand the capabilities of its open-source Nova kernel graphics driver for Linux. The…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (226+ words) DeepSeek has released V4-Flash-Vision-Exp as its first native vision model, expanding its open-source AI portfolio with multimodal capabilities. DeepSeek has open-sourced V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, described as the company’s first native vision model. The experimental release expands DeepSeek’s AI capabilities into multimodal computing,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (202+ words) Agentic AI could make open-source EDA tools easier to use, improve and integrate, expanding access to chip design while leaving advanced-node signoff firmly dependent on specialised commercial technologies. Agentic artificial intelligence could give open-source electronic design automation (EDA) a significant…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (358+ words) Open Source For You The open-source TinyGPU v2.0 packs around 240,000 transistors and has been verified as a working ASIC, rendering 3D graphics at up to 15 frames per second. An open-source graphics processor with around 240,000 transistors has successfully moved from FPGA testing to…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (286+ words) Open Source For You Nvidia will pay US$6B for Poolside’s Model Factory licence and hire 109 core engineers to supercharge its open-weight Nemotron development. On 20 August 2026, Nvidia announced to acquire a non-exclusive software licence for Poolside’s Model Factory and hire 109 key…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (341+ words) Open Source For You MetaRoCE is an open RDMA transport protocol designed for large-scale AI workloads on Ethernet networks, with its specification, reference implementation and compliance suite being contributed to the Open Compute Project. Meta has introduced MetaRoCE, an RDMA…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (249+ words) Open Source For You BrainChip’s open source bundle integrates its Akida neuromorphic AI chips with IBM Spectrum Symphony to offload lightweight tasks from GPUs in enterprise data centres. On 20 August 2026, BrainChip Holdings Ltd released the Symphony Community Akida Bundle, a…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (409+ words) Nvidia OpenShell is an Apache 2.0-licensed open source runtime designed to provide security, privacy, and operational guardrails for AI workloads Artificial intelligence is gradually evolving from interactive chat interfaces into autonomous software capable of writing code, executing commands, accessing files,…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (179+ words) Mesa’s reverse-engineered Etnaviv NPU driver now runs the YOLOX object detection model on Vivante NPUs without proprietary vendor blobs. Announced on 22 August 2026, the reverse-engineered, open-source Etnaviv Linux graphics/NPU driver stack can now successfully run the YOLOX real-time object detection…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (200+ words) ClickHouse has joined the Open Secure AI Alliance to build open security infrastructure for AI agents, combining open models, OpenTelemetry-based observability and self-hosted tools. ClickHouse has joined the Open Secure AI Alliance alongside NVIDIA and other industry leaders to build…...