Intel Releases OpenVINO 2026 With Improved NPU Handling, Expanded LLM Support

Phoronix Feb 23, 2026

Intel's open-source OpenVINO AI toolkit is out with its first major release of 2026. With today's OpenVINO 2026.0 release there is expanded large language model (LLM) support, improved Intel NPU support for Core Ultra systems, and a variety of other enhancements for benefiting Intel's CPU / NPU / GPU range of products for AI...

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