The Khronos Group is a member-driven consortium developing royalty-free open standards and vibrant ecosystems, to harness silicon acceleration for demanding graphics rendering and computationally intensive applications such as 3D graphics, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Parallel Computing, Neural Networks, and Vision Processing.

Khronos was founded in 2000 to provide a structure for industry leaders to safely cooperate in the creation of standards that deliver on the promise of cross-platform technology to advance both their own businesses as well as the industry.

Khronos members, companies and universities from around the world, work together to define, document, maintain, and promote innovative APIs, file formats, and other open standards used throughout a cross section of industries.