diff --git a/pkgbuilds/openvino-genai/.omarchy/package.json b/pkgbuilds/openvino-genai/.omarchy/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2a9719d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgbuilds/openvino-genai/.omarchy/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+  "source": "local"
+}
diff --git a/pkgbuilds/openvino-genai/PKGBUILD b/pkgbuilds/openvino-genai/PKGBUILD
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..41f52cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgbuilds/openvino-genai/PKGBUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+# Maintainer: Spencer Bull <spencer@omarchy.org>
+
+pkgname=openvino-genai
+pkgver=2026.3.1.0
+pkgrel=3
+pkgdesc="OpenVINO GenAI C and C++ runtime libraries"
+arch=('x86_64')
+url="https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/openvino.genai"
+license=('Apache-2.0')
+options=('!debug' '!lto')
+depends=(
+    'gcc-libs'
+    'glibc'
+    'onetbb'
+    'openvino=2026.3.1' # Includes libopenvino_c.so.
+)
+makedepends=(
+    'cmake'
+    'git'
+    'ninja'
+    'python'
+)
+optdepends=(
+    'openvino-intel-gpu-plugin: inference on Intel GPUs'
+    'openvino-intel-npu-plugin: inference on Intel NPUs'
+)
+
+_commit=56d9685302da2fc5cc7c9689cfab500fd0660a02
+source=(
+    "openvino.genai::git+$url.git#commit=$_commit"
+    'gcc-16-char8_t.patch'
+    'format-template-linkage.patch::https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/openvino.genai/commit/398fbc1450f7485368edf52dd82f45eba215d6c9.patch'
+)
+sha256sums=(
+    'SKIP'
+    '6e685c1e45d4b2314fd55e2f791846cc9086413ba62a6bb5e31be5a5878a243c'
+    '8c2a3e4bf1d33e00b780da7bec2d5e40b6fd26a4e518359d6ff7c59ca7f649e3'
+)
+
+prepare() {
+    cd openvino.genai
+    patch -Np1 -i "$srcdir/gcc-16-char8_t.patch"
+    # Backport upstream 398fbc14: GCC -O3 can otherwise leave format<int>
+    # unresolved in libopenvino_genai.so.
+    patch -Np1 -i "$srcdir/format-template-linkage.patch"
+    git submodule update --init --recursive
+}
+
+build() {
+    CFLAGS+=" -ffile-prefix-map=$srcdir=/usr/src/$pkgname"
+    CXXFLAGS+=" -ffile-prefix-map=$srcdir=/usr/src/$pkgname"
+
+    cmake -S openvino.genai -B build -G Ninja \
+        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
+        -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
+        -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=ON \
+        -DENABLE_JS=OFF \
+        -DENABLE_MISAKI_CPP=OFF \
+        -DENABLE_PYTHON=OFF \
+        -DENABLE_SAMPLES=OFF \
+        -DENABLE_TESTS=OFF \
+        -DENABLE_TOOLS=OFF \
+        -DENABLE_XGRAMMAR=OFF
+
+    cmake --build build
+}
+
+check() {
+    LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$srcdir/build/openvino_genai:$srcdir/build/src/c${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH}" \
+        python -c 'import ctypes; ctypes.CDLL("libopenvino_c.so"); ctypes.CDLL("libopenvino_genai_c.so")'
+}
+
+package() {
+    install -d "$pkgdir/usr/lib" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname"
+
+    cp -a build/openvino_genai/libopenvino_genai.so* "$pkgdir/usr/lib/"
+    cp -a build/openvino_genai/libopenvino_tokenizers.so* "$pkgdir/usr/lib/"
+    cp -a build/src/c/libopenvino_genai_c.so* "$pkgdir/usr/lib/"
+
+    # Consumers such as omawake load the unversioned name dynamically.
+    # Reject a missing/empty library or a broken symlink before publishing.
+    if [[ ! -s "$pkgdir/usr/lib/libopenvino_genai_c.so" ]]; then
+        error 'Required C binding is missing or empty: libopenvino_genai_c.so'
+        return 1
+    fi
+
+    install -Dm644 openvino.genai/LICENSE \
+        "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
+    install -Dm644 openvino.genai/third-party-programs.txt \
+        "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/third-party-programs.txt"
+    install -Dm644 openvino.genai/thirdparty/openvino_tokenizers/LICENSE \
+        "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/openvino-tokenizers-LICENSE"
+    install -Dm644 openvino.genai/thirdparty/openvino_tokenizers/third-party-programs.txt \
+        "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/openvino-tokenizers-third-party-programs.txt"
+}
diff --git a/pkgbuilds/openvino-genai/gcc-16-char8_t.patch b/pkgbuilds/openvino-genai/gcc-16-char8_t.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c94559d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgbuilds/openvino-genai/gcc-16-char8_t.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+diff --git a/src/cpp/src/whisper/word_level_timestamps.cpp b/src/cpp/src/whisper/word_level_timestamps.cpp
+index 7b3da124..d1f9212f 100644
+--- a/src/cpp/src/whisper/word_level_timestamps.cpp
++++ b/src/cpp/src/whisper/word_level_timestamps.cpp
+@@ -327 +327 @@ std::pair<std::vector<std::string>, std::vector<std::vector<int64_t>>> split_toke
+-    const std::string replacement_char = u8"\uFFFD";
++    const std::string replacement_char = "\xEF\xBF\xBD";