Early this year AMD announced the open-source GAIA project for "Generative AI Is Awesome" as a showcase of AI support atop their Ryzen AI NPUs and other hardware. That began as a Windows-only project but in September AMD added Linux support to GAIA but only using Vulkan acceleration for AI on Radeon GPUs. Now today GAIA 0.14 is available with "native" support for both macOS and Linux.

AMD’s GAIA is a a showcase for AI chat agents and other LLM agents on AMD consumer hardware. With today’s v0.14 release they are promoting "native macOS and Linux support" but it’s not immediately clear if this Linux support now allows for Ryzen AI NPU use on Linux or if ROCm can now also be leveraged or if it’s still limited to Vulkan acceleration like in prior releases. After all, macOS now has "native" support too but without any Ryzen AI NPU possibilities under macOS.

The release notes are rather bare when it comes to any new Linux references and their cited pull requests are for a non-public repository that isn’t accessible to external/public individuals.

AMD GAIA 0.14 adds a document Q&A assistant for interacting with your local documents using agentic RAG for semantic searching, image extract from PDFs, and other auto-discovery features of your documents. There are also code agent improvements and other enhancements with the GAIA 0.14 release.

I’ll be trying out AMD GAIA 0.14 soon to see how the "native" Linux support is working out and just how well rounded the hardware support is. For those wanting to try out AMD GAIA as an AI demonstrator can find it on GitHub.