What's New

• Upgrade to the latest version for new capabilities and performance improvements.
• Introduces a preview of Conditional Compilation (available in open-source distribution) which enables a significant reduction to the binary footprint of the runtime components (Inference Engine linked into applications) for particular models.
• Introducing support for the 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform (code-named Ice Lake), which delivers advanced performance, security, efficiency, and built-in AI acceleration to handle unique workloads and more powerful AI.
• New pre-trained models and support for public models to streamline development:
  • Pre-trained Models: machine-translation, person-vehicle-bike-detection, text-recognition and text-to-speech.
  • Public Models: aclnet-int8 (sound_classification), deblurgan-v2 (image_processing), fastseg-small and fastseg-large (semantic segmentation) and more.
• Developer tools now available as Python wheel packages for Windows*, Linux*, and macOS* for easy package installation and upgrades (pip install openvino-dev)

You can find OpenVINO™ toolkit 2021.3 release here:

• Download archives* with OpenVINO™ Runtime for C/C++
• OpenVINO™ Runtime for Python:pip install openvino==2021.3.0
• OpenVINO™ Development tools:pip install openvino-dev==2021.3.0

Release Notes:https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/articles/openvino-relnotes.html