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TensorIR

NVIDIA

TensorIR is NVIDIA's lightweight MLIR compiler frontend for expressing tensor computations, lowering to CUDA Tile IR for code generation on NVIDIA GPUs. NVIDIA is releasing it early for community evaluation and feedback ahead of a production-performance commitment.

Verified 2026-09-02 via the GitHub API and the LICENSE body.

Openness

5 high confidence
5.0
license
Apache-2.0(OSI)
source
public
core-gated
ungated

Apache-2.0 license body confirmed. The repository is public and unarchived and builds the whole product, and the README describes no paid tier, enterprise edition or license-gated build beside it, so source is public and the core ungated.

Adoption

1 low confidence
1.0

111 GitHub stars, which lands in the <1K stars band of the stars scale, level 1. No package registry publishes Tensor IR and the repository is built from source, so no download count exists and the stars scale applies.

Capability

4 medium confidence
4.0

One band below the apache-tvm anchor, on the same reasoning as cuda-tile, the backend it depends on: a full compilation toolchain narrowed to one vendor's targets (NVIDIA GPUs) rather than apache-tvm's multi-vendor retargetability.

  • https://github.com/NVIDIA/tensor-ir/blob/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-02

    README describes TensorIR Compiler as an early release for community evaluation that depends on CUDA Tile IR for GPU code generation, and names no paid tier, enterprise edition or license-gated build beside the published source.

Verified 2026-09-02