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Google ML Drift Accelerates On-Device AI Inference Across Diverse GPUs

By Sergio De Simone · InfoQ · Sunday, 25 October 2026 at 17:00 (1h ago) · Original article ↗

Google has released ML Drift, an open-source, cross-platform GPU compute engine designed for on-device AI and machine learning inference. Licensed under Apache 2.0, it abstracts the complexities of different GPU hardware and low-level APIs, supporting OpenGL ES, OpenCL, Metal, and WebGPU.

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