OpenVINO™ Tools Overview

.. meta:: :description: Check an overview of the most interesting components of the OpenVINO™ project.

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openvino-project/openvino-test-drive

This page provides an overview of the most noteworthy tools and components for AI developers, hosted in repositories under the OpenVINO project:

| GenAI | :bdg-link-dark:GitHub <https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/openvino.genai> :bdg-link-success:User Guide <https://docs.openvino.ai/2026/openvino-workflow-generative/inference-with-genai.html>

OpenVINO™ GenAI Library simplifies running inference of generative AI models. Check the LLM-powered Chatbot Jupyter notebook to see how GenAI works. |hr|

| Neural Network Compression Framework | :bdg-link-dark:GitHub <https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/nncf> :bdg-link-success:User Guide <https://docs.openvino.ai/2026/openvino-workflow/model-optimization.html>

A suite of advanced algorithms for Neural Network inference optimization with minimal accuracy drop. NNCF applies quantization and sparsity algorithms to PyTorch models during training. |hr|

| OpenVINO Model Server | :bdg-link-dark:GitHub <https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/model_server> :bdg-link-success:User Guide <https://docs.openvino.ai/2026/model-server/ovms_what_is_openvino_model_server.html>

A high-performance system that can be used to access the host models via request to the model server. |hr|

| OpenVINO Notebooks | :bdg-link-dark:GitHub <https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/openvino_notebooks> :bdg-link-success:Jupyter Notebook Collection <https://docs.openvino.ai/2026/get-started/learn-openvino/interactive-tutorials-python.html>

A collection of Jupyter notebooks for learning and experimenting with the OpenVINO™ Toolkit. |hr|

| OpenVINO Test Drive | :bdg-link-dark:GitHub <https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/openvino_testdrive> :bdg-link-success:Overview Page <https://docs.openvino.ai/2026/documentation/openvino-ecosystem/openvino-project/openvino-test-drive.html>

A cross-platform graphic user interface application for running and testing generative and vision AI models on computers or edge devices. |hr|

| Tokenizers | :bdg-link-dark:GitHub <https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/openvino_tokenizers> :bdg-link-success:User Guide <https://docs.openvino.ai/2026/openvino-workflow-generative/ov-tokenizers.html>

OpenVINO Tokenizers add text processing operations to OpenVINO. |hr|

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