Intel doesn’t want to just create a rival to the CUDA programming model and library stack so it can better compete against Nvidia in the GPU compute market. With oneAPI, it wants to create an open ecosystem that includes a programming framework, called oneAPI and largely based on the SYCL framework that is maintained by the Kronos Group, a data parallel C++ compiler, and a diverse set of high performance libraries to accelerate AI and HPC applications that can compete with the hundreds of libraries that Nvidia and its partners have created for CUDA.