Optimum Intel v2.1.0

Optimum Intel v2.1.0 has been released alongside OpenVINO 2026.3, OpenVINO GenAI 2026.3, and NNCF 3.3, with validation performed across these related components. The update adds export and inference support for several architectures, including Google’s multimodal Gemma 3n and encoder-free Gemma 4 Unified, Alibaba’s Qwen3-Omni-MoE and Qwen3-VL-Embedding models, the compact multilingual SmolLM3 language model, and Black Forest Labs’ FLUX.2 image-generation series. Users can install the update through pip, while the release recommends pinning OpenVINO, OpenVINO Tokenizers, and NNCF to their validated versions; further architecture-specific export guidance and complete changes are available in the documentation and release notes.

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