Nscale Joins PyTorch Foundation as Platinum Member, Backs Ray
AI cloud platform Nscale has joined the PyTorch Foundation as a Platinum member, the foundation announced on 20 October 2026. The company gets a seat on the Governing Board and says it will keep investing in Ray, the distributed computing framework, after its planned acquisition of Anyscale.
- Nscale joined the PyTorch Foundation as a Platinum member, announced on 20 October 2026.
- Nscale plans to acquire Anyscale, the company behind Ray, and has committed to continued investment in Ray and its contributors.
- Nick Jones takes Nscale's Governing Board seat; Eyal Lantzman joins the Technical Advisory Council.
- Ray has been under Foundation governance since October 2025.
Why Nscale is joining
Nscale describes itself as a full-stack AI cloud platform that brings together power, data centers, compute and software in one vertically integrated offering. According to the PyTorch Foundation, the company first came into its project ecosystem through Ray, the open-source framework for distributed computing and scaling AI workloads.
Nscale plans to acquire Anyscale, the company behind Ray. The company has committed to continuing investment in Ray's development and its contributor community. Ray has been governed under the Foundation since the project joined in October 2025.
Nick Jones, VP of Cloud Native Platform Engineering at Nscale, said: "Most infrastructure providers treat the framework and the data center as two separate problems. We treat them as one." He described PyTorch as the base layer of AI and Ray as the tool for getting that work to run "across thousands of GPUs". Jones added that the Platinum membership is Nscale "backing that directly, not just benefiting from it".
Foundation's view on scaling workloads
Mark Collier, Executive Director of the PyTorch Foundation, said that as frontier AI workloads scale to multi-trillion parameters, "seamless integration between PyTorch, distributed frameworks like Ray, and underlying cluster infrastructure is essential." In his words, Nscale's decision shows a commitment to open source, eliminating friction for developers and optimizing multi-node performance.
The PyTorch Foundation is hosted by the Linux Foundation. Besides the core PyTorch framework, it supports projects including vLLM, DeepSpeed, Ray, Helion and Safetensors.
Board seat and technical council role
As a Platinum member, Nscale receives one seat on the PyTorch Foundation Governing Board. According to the announcement, the Board sets policy through the bylaws, mission and vision statements, and describes the scope of foundation initiatives, technical vision and direction.
- Nick Jones joins the board. He leads engineering strategy for Nscale's high-performance GPU cloud and has more than 15 years of experience across cloud-native infrastructure, AI and high-performance computing. His past roles include SUSE, Rancher and Mesosphere.
- Eyal Lantzman, VP of AI Services at Nscale, joins the Technical Advisory Council. He leads the AI services stack, focused on serving and optimizing large open-weight models in production, and has more than 20 years of experience, including roles at JPMorgan Chase, AWS and Microsoft.
What it means
For developers who rely on PyTorch and Ray, the move ties an infrastructure provider more closely to the governance of both projects. Nscale says it intends to fund Ray's development and contributor community, and it now has a formal voice in the Foundation's policy and technical direction. The announcement does not give financial terms of the membership or of the Anyscale acquisition, which it describes as planned.
Organizations interested in joining the PyTorch Foundation can find details on its website.
PyTorch: Nscale Joins the PyTorch Foundation as a Platinum Member
