Optix is an API for writing ray tracing code.

Blender Cycles has a beta build that can use Turing cards, but it is not yet in a final release of Blender.

You can read more about that here

Once that is finalized, it will be open source code like the rest of Blender so anyone that incorporates Cycles into a program can use it.

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