The Khronos Group is celebrating its 25th anniversary today, March 05, 2026, marking a quarter-century of developing open standards for visual computing. The organization was founded by a group of companies who recognized the need for consensus-driven interoperability standards to prevent fragmentation and duplicated effort in nascent technologies like smartphones, GPU acceleration, and cloud computing. Reflecting on the group's founding, the organization stated that "without consensus-driven interoperability standards, fragmentation and duplicated effort would severely limit these transformative innovations—they chose collaboration over competition, because open standards only work when built by the industry they serve." Khronos continues to manage key industry specifications such as Vulkan, OpenGL, OpenCL, and WebGL.