Is Tenstorrent's Software Open Source?

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Sarthak Vaish

NOVEMBER 13, 2026

Yes. Tenstorrent says Blackhole is "supported by Tenstorrent's fully open source software stack, granting developers full access to the metal."

The stack

Tenstorrent's documentation lists four main components:

ComponentWhat it is
TT-ForgeEnd-to-end MLIR compiler for models from PyTorch, JAX and ONNX
TT-NNHigh-level Python API of pre-optimized neural-network operations
TT-MetaliumLow-level C++ SDK for writing custom kernels on Tensix cores
TT-MLIRMLIR-based compiler infrastructure that lowers models onto Tenstorrent hardware

The docs link to a GitHub organization holding the public source repositories for the software stack, compilers, tools and demos, including tt-metal.

The hardware side

Tenstorrent's Blackhole page lists 120 Tensix cores, 16 big RISC-V cores and up to 32GB of GDDR6 per chip. See Tenstorrent Blackhole vs NVIDIA for the comparison, whether Tenstorrent supports PyTorch, and NVIDIA's main competitors in AI.

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