Apex Compute Developing Open-Source Mesa Vulkan Driver For Their Hardware - Phoronix
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Apex Compute is building an open-source Mesa-based Vulkan driver for its AI accelerator hardware in California.Summary
Apex Compute, founded in California in 2024, is developing high-efficiency AI accelerators for real-time edge AI inferencing. Unlike many startups with proprietary software, Apex is building an open-source Vulkan driver based on Mesa, as revealed by their Vulkan-Docs merge request for author ID, vendor ID, and driver ID. Their Mesa branch on GitHub shows active development with frequent patches. Using Vulkan API for AI inferencing enables compatibility with existing software like Llama.cpp. This open-source approach makes Apex Compute notably more interesting than competitors, and they hope to submit the driver upstream to Mesa once complete.
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