An open AI
community
for all
Hi there 👋 -- we are a community of practitioners working on
open-source shareable building blocks (from silicon to open models)
empowering humanity to own its own AI.
We bring together hackers in the fields of computer architecture,
ASIC design, advanced systems, and neural network compilers.
Join our thriving community and share, collaborate and innovate with us!
An open AI
community
for all
Hi there 👋 -- we are a community of practitioners working on open-source shareable building blocks (from silicon to open models) empowering humanity to own its own AI. We bring together hackers in the fields of computer architecture, ASIC design, advanced systems, and neural network compilers. Join our thriving community and share, collaborate and innovate with us!
This DevRoom is a celebration of Open Source Low-level AI projects of all types and sizes – the "plumbing" of the AI industry
We aspire for this DevRoom to become as important to the AI community as the Linux Plumbers Conference is to the Linux community.
We are bringing together the top developers working on the essential "plumbing" of the AI industry: hardware accelerators, math kernel libraries, model quantization techniques, low-level inference, fine-tuning engines, distributed and rack-scale computing, and more. Together, we will spend the day discussing core designs and collaborating to solve governance problems.
We are looking for low-level AI core open source project maintainers and committers (such as ggml, llama.cpp and tinygrad, zml, etc.), downstream projects building on top of these (for example, Triton and Dynamo Inference Servers and Docker model runner), as well as end-users of AI stacks to speak about their work and expertise.
and would like to share your experience,
please submit a talk:
ABOUT FOSDEM
FOSDEM is a non-commercial event organized by the community for the community. It will take place on the weekend of 31st of January & 1st of February 2026, in Brussels, Belgium. Participation is free and open to everyone. Last year, attendance exceeded 8,000 participants.
FOSDEM is free to attend. There is no registration.
Join the "AI Plumbers" Dev Room
This DevRoom is a celebration of Open Source Low-level AI projects of all types and sizes – the "plumbing" of the AI industry
We aspire for this DevRoom to become as important to the AI community as the Linux Plumbers Conference is to the Linux community.
We are bringing together the top developers working on the essential "plumbing" of the AI industry: hardware accelerators, math kernel libraries, model quantization techniques, low-level inference, fine-tuning engines, distributed and rack-scale computing, and more. Together, we will spend the day discussing core designs and collaborating to solve governance problems.
We are looking for low-level AI core open source project maintainers and committers (such as ggml, llama.cpp and tinygrad, zml, etc.), downstream projects building on top of these (for example, Triton and Dynamo Inference Servers and Docker model runner), as well as end-users of AI stacks to speak about their work and expertise.
and would like to share your experience,
please submit a talk:
ABOUT FOSDEM
FOSDEM is a non-commercial event organized by the community for the community. It will take place on the weekend of 31st of January & 1st of February 2026, in Brussels, Belgium. Participation is free and open to everyone. Last year, attendance exceeded 8,000 participants.
FOSDEM is free to attend. There is no registration.
View and join our
open-source projects
AI Foundry open source projects are Apache V2 licensed. View the code on
our GitHub, and collaborate with project contributors in our Discord Server.
ET Platform
- ET Platform is a RISCV, manycore architecture
- The ET SOC1 contains 1088 compute cores (called minions)
- Each minion has two rv64imfc RISCV HARTs with vendor-specific vector and tensor extensions
- For a full understanding of the ET SOC1 architecture check the [ET SOC1 Programmers Reference Manual]
- Licensed under Apache License, Version 2.0
View repo
Inference frameworks
- ggml/llama.cpp
- tinygrad
- onnxruntime
View repo
Research in Quantization
- Quantization Aware Training
- MHAQ
- tinyMHAQ
View repo
View and join our
open-source
projects
AI Foundry open source projects are Apache
V2 licensed. View the code on our GitHub, and
collaborate with project contributors in our
Discord Server.
ET Platform
- ET Platform is a RISCV, manycore architecture
- The ET SOC1 contains 1088 compute cores (called minions)
- Each minion has two rv64imfc RISCV HARTs with vendor-specific vector and tensor extensions
- For a full understanding of the ET SOC1 architecture check the [ET SOC1 Programmers Reference Manual]
- Licensed under Apache License, Version 2.0
Inference frameworks
- ggml/llama.cpp
- tinygrad
- onnxruntime
Research in Quantization
- Quantization Aware Training
- MHAQ
- tinyMHAQ
What's happening
in the community
Upcoming podcasts, virtual and physical community events for AI Foundry.
Al Plumbers Unconference:
San Francisco Edition
October 25, 2025 Saturday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PST
SF, USA
Berlin Buzzwords:
AI plumbers conference
June 15, 2025 Sunday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM GMT+1
Berlin, Germany
FOSDEM fringe:
AI plumbers conference
Feb 3, 2025 Monday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM GMT+1
Gent, Belgium
What's happening
in the community
Upcoming podcasts, virtual and physical
community events for AI Foundry.
Al Plumbers Unconference:
San Francisco Edition
October 25, 2025 Saturday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PST
SF, USA
Berlin Buzzwords:
AI plumbers conference
June 15, 2025 Sunday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM GMT+1
Berlin, Germany
FOSDEM fringe:
AI plumbers conference
Feb 3, 2025 Monday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM GMT+1
Gent, Belgium
Explore AI Plumbers Insights
Stay updated with our community-driven content. Read about past events and access to summaries and video replays of prior AI Plumbers Events and Podcasts.
AI Plumbers
Community
HF
Shaping the AI Landscape: Hugging Face on Community and Innovation
VB | June 15, 2025
AI Plumbers
LLM
Overhauling vision support in llama.cpp and llama-server
Xuan-Song Nguyen | June 15, 2025
Explore AI Plumbers
Insights
Stay updated with our community-driven content.
Read about past events and access to summaries
and video replays of prior AI Plumbers Events and
Podcasts.
Vision
& Mission
Our long-term vision is to help the industry evolve to a structure where model training and deployment for any company are open, transparent, and concise.
We desire to see the industry aligned on the principles of how those systems are structured at a high level from which every company can deploy its own engine or system, configured the way each specific company needs it. This approach will lower risks and improve AI results for all companies and practitioners. Therefore, we foster, build, and support projects that can become the engineering foundation of such training and deployment systems. We support practitioners willing to benefit from AI in their work and life, specifically models and their fine-tuning and deployment.
We are a community of practitioners building an open-source composable AI ecosystem. By collaborating on standards for everyone, we aim to reduce the complexity of the AI industry.
Our core values
Openness
Integrity
Empathy
Cooperation
Vision
& Mission
Our long-term vision is to help the industry evolve to a structure where model training and deployment for any company are open, transparent, and concise.
We desire to see the industry aligned on the principles of how those systems are structured at
a high level from which every company can
deploy its own engine or system, configured the
way each specific company needs it. This approach will lower risks and improve AI results for all companies and practitioners. Therefore, we foster, build, and support projects that can
become the engineering foundation of such training and deployment systems. We support practitioners willing to benefit from AI in their work and life, specifically models and their fine-tuning and deployment.
We are a community of practitioners building an open-source composable AI ecosystem. By collaborating on standards for everyone, we aim to reduce the complexity of the AI industry.
Our core values
Openness
Integrity
Empathy
Cooperation
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