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Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver Lands BFloat16 Support In Mesa 25.2


Introduced last month in the Vulkan 1.4.311 spec was VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 for supporting BF16 types within SPIR-V shaders

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