On the same day as beginning to ship the Intel Arc Pro B50 ~$349 USD workstation graphics card, Intel also shipped OpenVINO 2025.3 as the newest feature release for this open-source AI toolkit.
OpenVINO 2025.3 brings support for the Intel Arc Pro B-Series including the now-shipping Arc Pro B50 as reviewed yesterday on Phoronix. OpenVINO is also ready to go with the upcoming Arc Pro B60 that is more interesting for AI workloads due to the 24GB of RAM.
On the hardware side, Intel also expanded its NPU support with OpenVINO 2025.3. The Intel NPU found in their Core Ultra SoCs should now work with OpenVINO for Qwen3-1.7B, Qwen3-4B, and Qwen3-8B models. There is also a number of other enhancements around their NPU plug-in with this OpenVINO update. LLMs optimized for Intel NPU use are also now available via Hugging Face.
At large, OpenVINO 2025.3 adds GenAI support for the Phi-4-mini-reasoning, AFM-4.5B, Gemma-3-1B-it, Gemma-3-4B-it, and Gemma-3-12B models. Plus a number of other enhancements throughout for this quarterly OpenVINO 2025.3 AI toolkit update.
Downloads and more details on the OpenVINO 2025.3 release via GitHub.
