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Databricks beta streams Unity Catalog data directly to GPUs
Databricks has released UCDataset in beta on AI Runtime, a native PyTorch data loader that streams Unity Catalog tables directly to GPUs. The company says it can cut…
Google makes Pathways generally available for large-model training
Google has announced the general availability of Pathways on Google Cloud Platform, a distributed system it built to train large models including Gemini. Pathways uses a…
vLLM adopts LibTorch Stable ABI to ease PyTorch upgrades
vLLM has migrated its CUDA build to PyTorch’s LibTorch Stable ABI, allowing its v0.33.0 LibTorch ABI Stable CUDA wheels to work across compatible PyTorch releases…
Ray Launches Special Interest Group to Shape Accelerator Support
The Ray community has created a Special Interest Group (SIG) for hardware accelerators, aiming to define a shared, vendor-neutral roadmap for how Ray works with GPUs…
PyTorch 2.15 makes rewritten NCCL backend the default and adds FP8 on Apple Silicon
PyTorch 2.15 is out, and the rewritten NCCL backend now runs every nccl process group by default. The release also adds one-sided transports to torch.distributed, finer…
Arm SME2 Cuts Streaming Speech Recognition Time on Pixel 11 by Up to 2.12x
A PyTorch case study finds that Arm's SME2 matrix extension cuts whole-recording processing time for the streaming speech model Nemotron 3.5 on a Google Pixel 11 by…
PyTorch Conference 2026: TPU, Trainium Backends and Nine New Members
PyTorch Conference North America 2026 in San Jose drew more than 3,500 attendees and brought announcements on native PyTorch backends for Google TPUs and AWS Trainium…
PyTorch Foundation names 24 ambassadors for 2026 across five regions
The PyTorch Foundation has named its 2026 Ambassador Program cohort: 24 community leaders across five program regions. According to the Foundation, they will run…
Vultr joins Agentic AI Foundation as Gold member to push open agent stacks
Cloud infrastructure provider Vultr has joined the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) as a Gold member. The company says it will support the foundation's work on open…
TorchTitan adds RL training with TitanRL and support for new frontier models
PyTorch's TorchTitan platform has gained reinforcement learning support through a new component called TitanRL, along with native support for several new open-weights…
PyTorch adds FlyDSL backend for faster operators on AMD MI350 GPUs
PyTorch users on AMD MI350-series GPUs can now use FlyDSL kernels through existing operator APIs for GEMM, attention, RMSNorm and TopK. According to the PyTorch blog…
i14 brings Laplace 3B linear attention model to AWS Trainium2 with native PyTorch
AI research company i14 has trained and served its Laplace 3B linear attention model on AWS Trainium2 using native PyTorch, according to an AWS blog post. The model…
PyTorch Foundation adds nine members, including Nebius, Nscale and Shopify
The PyTorch Foundation, the Linux Foundation-hosted hub for open source AI, has added nine new members, with Nebius, Nscale and Shopify joining at the Platinum tier. The…
Nebius joins PyTorch Foundation as Platinum member, gets a board seat
Nebius, the Amsterdam-based AI cloud company, has joined the PyTorch Foundation as a Platinum member, according to a foundation announcement. The membership comes with a…
Google and Meta launch TorchTPU, a native PyTorch backend for TPUs
Google and Meta's PyTorch team have introduced TorchTPU, an open source backend that runs PyTorch natively on Google TPUs. According to the project's authors, existing…
PyTorch Team Details MLIR Dataflow Backend That Turns KTIR Into IBM Spyre Code
A new PyTorch blog post describes how torch-spyre turns Inductor's work-division decisions into programs for IBM's Spyre accelerator. The path runs through KTIR, an MLIR…
Ray now runs native PyTorch on Google TPUs, Anyscale and Google Cloud say
Anyscale and Google Cloud have announced native Ray support for PyTorch on Google TPUs. Built on Google's TorchTPU project and KubeRay on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)…
Hugging Face adds native TPU support through TorchTPU PyTorch backend
Hugging Face says Transformers, Diffusers and Kernels now run natively on Google's TPUs, thanks to TorchTPU, a native PyTorch backend that makes TPU "just another…
PyTorch 2.15 brings FP8 and much faster MoE decoding to Macs
PyTorch 2.15 adds float8_e4m3fn support on the MPS backend and, according to the Hugging Face PyTorch team, makes mixture-of-experts models decode 5 to 6.5 times faster…
Google and Meta bring TorchTitan to TPUs with PyTorch-native training recipes
Google has released TorchTitan TPU, a fork of Meta's TorchTitan that lets developers train PyTorch models on Google Cloud TPUs with ready-made distributed recipes.…
PyTorch Helion can now tune NVIDIA compiler controls alongside GPU kernel settings
PyTorch's Helion autotuner can now search compiler settings below the kernel level together with its usual kernel configurations. The settings come from NVIDIA's…
TorchNeuron brings native PyTorch support to AWS Trainium chips
PyTorch has introduced TorchNeuron, an open source native backend that lets developers run existing PyTorch code on AWS Trainium by treating the chip as a standard…
Google's LiteRT Tensor API lets developers build on-device models op by op in C++
Google has released the LiteRT Tensor API, a lightweight authoring layer in the LiteRT stack that lets developers build model graphs op by op in C++ and run the same…
TorchNeuron brings native PyTorch support for HF models to AWS Trainium
Hugging Face says its main libraries now run natively on AWS Trainium through TorchNeuron, a new PyTorch backend that exposes Trainium as a standard device. TorchNeuron…