OpenVINO™ toolkit: An open source AI toolkit that makes it easier to write once, deploy anywhere.

What's New in Version 2026.0

OpenVINO™ 2026.0 takes your AI deployments to the next level with new features and performance enhancements. In this release, you’ll see continuous improvements for large language models (LLMs), optimized runtimes for Intel® hardware, and expanded capabilities for efficient AI deployment across edge, cloud, and local environments. Explore the latest updates and unlock new possibilities for your AI projects.

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Latest Features

Easier model access and conversion
We’ve made model conversion easier.

Topic	Details
New Model Support	On CPUs & GPUs: GPT-OSS-20B, Qwen3-30B-A3B, MiniCPM-V-4_5-8B, and MiniCPM-o-2.6 New models supported on NPUs: MiniCPM-o-2.6. In addition, NPU support is now available on Qwen2.5-1B-Instruct, Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B, Qwen-2.5-coder-0.5B.

GenAI and LLM enhancements

We've expanded model support and accelerated inference.

Topic	Details
GenAI Enhancements	Preview: OpenVINO™ GenAI adds support for video generation pipeline based on LTX-Video model on CPU and GPUs. OpenVINO™ GenAI now adds word-level timestamp functionality to the Whisper Pipeline on CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs, enabling more accurate transcriptions and subtitling in line with OpenAI and FasterWhisper implementations. OpenVINO™ GenAI and OpenVINO™ Model Server introduces EAGLE-3 speculative decoding to accelerate LLM inference using smarter token prediction on Intel CPUs and GPUs. Validated on Qwen3-8B model. OpenVINO™ GenAI adds VLM pipeline support to enhance Agentic AI framework integration. OpenVINO GenAI now supports speculative decoding for NPUs, delivering improved performance and efficient text generation through a small draft model that is periodically validated by the full-size model.

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GenAI Enhancements

Preview: OpenVINO™ GenAI adds support for video generation pipeline based on LTX-Video model on CPU and GPUs.
OpenVINO™ GenAI now adds word-level timestamp functionality to the Whisper Pipeline on CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs, enabling more accurate transcriptions and subtitling in line with OpenAI and FasterWhisper implementations.
OpenVINO™ GenAI and OpenVINO™ Model Server introduces EAGLE-3 speculative decoding to accelerate LLM inference using smarter token prediction on Intel CPUs and GPUs. Validated on Qwen3-8B model.
OpenVINO™ GenAI adds VLM pipeline support to enhance Agentic AI framework integration.
OpenVINO GenAI now supports speculative decoding for NPUs, delivering improved performance and efficient text generation through a small draft model that is periodically validated by the full-size model.

More portability and performance

Develop once, deploy anywhere. OpenVINO enables developers to run AI at the edge, in the cloud, or locally.

Topic	Details
NPU plugin Support	Preview: NPU compiler integration with the NPU plugin enables ahead-of-time and on-device compilation without relying on OEM driver updates. Developers can enable this feature for a single, ready-to-ship package that reduces integration friction and accelerates time-to-value.
Model Server Updates	OpenVINO™ Model Server adds enhanced support for audio endpoint plus agentic continuous batching and concurrent runs for improved LLM performance in agentic workflows on Intel CPUs and GPUs.
NNCF Updates	With the new int4 data-aware weight compression for 3D MatMuls, the Neural Network Compression Framework enables MoE LLMs to run with reduced memory, bandwidth, and improved accuracy compared to data-free schemes-delivering faster, more efficient deployment on resource-constrained devices. Preview: The Neural Network Compression Framework now supports per-layer and per-group Look-Up Tables (LUT) for FP8-4BLUT quantization. This enables fine-grained, codebook-based compression that reduces model size and bandwidth while improving inference speed and accuracy for LLMs and transformer workloads.

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