Release 24.5

We are excited to announce the release of MAX 24.5! This release includes support for installing MAX as a conda package with magic, a powerful new package and virtual environment manager. We’re also introducing two new Python APIs for MAX Graph and MAX Driver, which will ultimately provide the same low-level programming interface as the Mojo Graph API. MAX Engine has improved performance for Llama3, with 24.5 generating tokens for Llama an average of 15% to 48% faster. Lastly, this release also adds support for Python 3.12, and drops support for Python 3.8 and Ubuntu 20.04.

For additional details, checkout the changelog and the release announcement.