Mojo programming language iswas first released internally by Modular Inc. in September, 2022,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.modular.com/mojo/changelog.html#september-2022|title=Mojo🔥 changelog}}</ref> with advanced compilation features powered by the [[LLVM|MLIR]], the Multi-Level Intermediate Representation compiler framework.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.infoworld.com/article/3695588/mojo-language-marries-python-and-mlir-for-ai-development.html|title=Mojo language marries Python and MLIR for AI development}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lattner |first1=Chris |title=MLIR Primer: A Compiler Infrastructure for the End of Moore's Law |date=2019 |url=https://research.google/pubs/pub48035/ |access-date=2022-09-30 |last2=Pienaar |first2=Jacques4Jacques}}</ref><ref>{{cite arXiv |last1=Lattner |first1=Chris |last2=Amini |first2=Mehdi |last3=Bondhugula |first3=Uday |last4=Cohen |first4=Albert |last5=Davis |first5=Andy |last6=Pienaar |first6=Jacques |last7=Riddle |first7=River |last8=Shpeisman |first8=Tatiana |last9=Vasilache |first9=Nicolas |last10=Zinenko |first10=Oleksandr |date=2020-02-29 |title=MLIR: A Compiler Infrastructure for the End of Moore's Law |class=cs.PL |eprint=2002.11054}}</ref>
The companion, Modular Inference Engine,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.modular.com/engine/|title=Modular Inference Engine}}</ref> is an AI infrastructure that simplifysimplifies the AI development workflow and reducereduces inference latency in order to scale AI products.
