OAAX

The Open AI Accelerator eXchange (OAAX) Standard intends to provide a easy-to-use, easy-to-expand, standardized method of adopting (edge) AI accelerators such as NPUs, GPUs, FPUs or the like — we will call them XPUs” throughout — into edge AI applications. An AI application or pipeline consists of several operations that take one specific form of data as input, and transform this data into a more meaningful format. The OAAX standard is designed to make it easy to take a trained AI model and use it to run inference on any novel ( edge) AI accelerator instead of running it on a CPU.

OAAX was donated as a Sandbox-stage project by NetworkOptix to LF AI & Data Foundation in January 2025.