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Re:Mojo is now open source! by Alien1Being on Thursday August 20, 2026 @11:21AM (#49375919)
"Qualcomm to Acquire Modular 06/24/2026"

https://investor.qualcomm.com/news-events/press-releases/new...

Can acqui-death be far away...?

Re:Mojo is now open source! by ipsum2 on Thursday August 20, 2026 @01:15PM (#49377434)
Prediction: Chris Lattner will be off chasing some other shiny thing within a year. Without a strong champion, the company will be subsumed into Qualcomm and stop publishing meaningful updates.
Re:Mojo is now open source! by blltprfmnk on Thursday August 20, 2026 @11:38PM (#49383483)
100% on both counts but don't know if it's "within a year", or within a couple.
Re:Mojo is now open source! by chrismsimpson on Friday August 21, 2026 @01:06AM (#49384024)
I have this pang too, but for a different reason: everything is moving to the edge, training and inference. Who needs a complicated heterogeneous setup like this when you’re running everything locally?
Re:Mojo is now open source! by melodyogonna on Thursday August 20, 2026 @01:16PM (#49377442)
Chris Lattner is now Qualcomm's VP of AI Software and Tooling, so he is now responsible for all of Qualcomms AI software. Mojo wouldn't be doing any dying
Re:Mojo is now open source! by fancyfredbot on Thursday August 20, 2026 @06:22PM (#49381086)
Chris Lattner is now very very rich. Once his lockup expires he will not need to work for anyone.

I'm sure Qualcomm would love him to stick around but suspect that they'll maintain mojo even if he leaves.

Re:Mojo is now open source! by bernaferrari on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @02:27PM (#49453600)
he was rich already with all his previous jobs + all the funding the company got