docs/articles_en/get-started/install-openvino/configurations/genai-dependencies.rst
OpenVINO™ GenAI depends on both OpenVINO <https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/openvino>__ and
OpenVINO Tokenizers <https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/openvino_tokenizers>__. During OpenVINO™
GenAI installation from PyPi, the same versions of OpenVINO and OpenVINO Tokenizers
are used (e.g. openvino==2026.1.0 and openvino-tokenizers==2026.1.0.0 are installed for
openvino-genai==2026.1.0).
Trying to update any of the dependency packages might result in a version incompatibility
due to different Application Binary Interfaces (ABIs), which will result in errors while running
OpenVINO GenAI. Having package version in the <MAJOR>.<MINOR>.<PATCH>.<REVISION> format, enables
changing the <REVISION> portion of the full version to ensure ABI compatibility. Changing
<MAJOR>, <MINOR> or <PATCH> part of the version may break ABI.
GenAI, Tokenizers, and OpenVINO wheels for Linux on PyPI are compiled with _GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0
to cover a wider range of platforms. In the C++ archive distributions for Ubuntu, _GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=1
is used instead. Mixing different ABIs is not possible as doing so will result in a link error.
To try OpenVINO GenAI with different dependencies versions (which are not prebuilt packages
as archives or python wheels), build OpenVINO GenAI library from
Source <https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/openvino.genai/blob/releases/2026/0/src/docs/BUILD.md#build-openvino-openvino-tokenizers-and-openvino-genai-from-source>__.
Additional Resources #######################
OpenVINO GenAI Installation Guide <../install-openvino-genai>OpenVINO GenAI repository <https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/openvino.genai>__OpenVINO Installation Guide <../../install-openvino>OpenVINO Tokenizers <../../../openvino-workflow-generative/ov-tokenizers>