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OpenVINO
OpenVINO is Intel's open-source toolkit for optimizing deep-learning models and running them on CPU, GPU and NPU.
OpenVINO is an open-source toolkit for optimizing and deploying deep-learning models for computer vision, speech, generative AI and language tasks. It loads models from PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, Keras, PaddlePaddle and JAX/Flax, and it can pull Transformers and Diffusers models from Hugging Face through Optimum Intel. Inference runs on x86 and ARM CPUs, Intel integrated and discrete GPUs, and Intel NPUs, from the edge to the cloud. Official notebooks cover chatbots, YOLOv11, text-to-image and multimodal assistants such as LLaVA. A quick-install command and a cheat sheet are in the documentation.
OpenVINO at a glance
- Best for: Software engineer
- Runs on: open source
- Pricing: Free and open source
- Released: October 2018
- Category: AI coding tool
- Website: docs.openvino.ai
Key features
- Optimize models from PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX and more
- Hugging Face Transformers and Diffusers via Optimum Intel
- Inference on CPU, Intel GPU and Intel NPU
- Notebooks for LLMs, YOLO, speech and image generation
- Convert models without keeping the original framework
- Open-source toolkit with published benchmarks
Use it for
- Speed up a vision model on an Intel laptop CPU
- Serve a Hugging Face LLM through OpenVINO
- Deploy the same model from a device to a server
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