At CES 2026, AMD reaffirmed its commitment to transparency; however, industry observers suggest the company is merely acknowledging an unavoidable reality.
During a Q&A session at the event, Andrej Zdravkovic, AMD’s President of GPU Technologies and Chief Software Officer, hinted at the possibility of an official open-source debut for FSR 4.
When pressed on the timeline for publicizing the source code, Zdravkovic emphasized a commitment to being “as open as possible,” calling it a “long-term objective.” He specified, however, that AMD plans to release only select portions of the library, maintaining confidentiality over core technologies to protect its competitive advantage against rivals.
This discourse comes in the wake of a significant leak where FSR 4’s source code was accidentally made public. In August 2025, the files were mistakenly bundled into a FidelityFX SDK update on GitHub, distributed under the permissive MIT license.
AMD subsequently retracted the repository, labeling the release a mistake, but the legal implications remained: the MIT license authorized anyone who mirrored the files to use, modify, and share them. Consequently, many believe the “genie is out of the bottle,” interpreting AMD’s current rhetoric as a calculated attempt to retroactively legitimize a leak that effectively made the technology public a year prior.
Source: iXBT.games