Modular makes the MAX inference stack source-available under a permissive license

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On October 22 Modular released MAX 26.7 with source available for the graph compiler, runtime, and hardware backends under a permissive new license that allows commercial use without fees or royalties. Ship-ready implementations for NVIDIA, AMD, Apple Silicon, and CPUs are included as reference backends developers can inspect, modify, and extend.

Why it matters

It turns a closed commercial inference runtime into something kernel and backend engineers can fork, the same opening llama.cpp and vLLM gave the serving layer.

Importance: 3/5

commercial inference runtime moves to a source-available licence

inference compiler open-source

Sources

official MAX is now source available and open to everyone

official Modular 26.7: Opening up MAX