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Zephon brings elastically deterministic data loading to PyTorch's TorchTitan
For developersOctober 16, 2026, 18:30

Zephon brings elastically deterministic data loading to PyTorch's TorchTitan

PyTorch has introduced Zephon, a data loader for TorchTitan that produces the same global batches no matter how many GPUs a job runs on, while tokenizing, packing…

ExecuTorch Adds Cortex-M Backend to Run PyTorch Models on Microcontrollers
For developersOctober 15, 2026, 16:40

ExecuTorch Adds Cortex-M Backend to Run PyTorch Models on Microcontrollers

PyTorch has added a Cortex-M backend to ExecuTorch, allowing PyTorch models to run directly on Arm Cortex-M CPUs with CMSIS-NN acceleration. According to the PyTorch…

IBM's Spyre Accelerator Moves to PyTorch Inductor With a Compiler 7x Smaller
Chips and infrastructureOctober 13, 2026, 14:45

IBM's Spyre Accelerator Moves to PyTorch Inductor With a Compiler 7x Smaller

The PyTorch-based software stack for IBM's Spyre accelerator has moved its torch.compile backend from sendnn, a compilation stack built from scratch, to…

NVIDIA Dynamo adds session IDs so inference servers can follow AI agents
For developersOctober 8, 2026, 20:13

NVIDIA Dynamo adds session IDs so inference servers can follow AI agents

NVIDIA Dynamo now ties an agent's many model calls together with a single session-level identifier, so the inference server can treat them as one program rather than…

IBM's Spyre AI Accelerator Becomes a Native PyTorch Device via torch-spyre
For developersOctober 8, 2026, 14:45

IBM's Spyre AI Accelerator Becomes a Native PyTorch Device via torch-spyre

IBM's torch-spyre team has detailed how Spyre, its dataflow AI accelerator, works as a native PyTorch device. According to the PyTorch blog post, the integration…

RAI Institute Releases Exploy to Ease Robot Policy Deployment
For developersOctober 7, 2026, 16:21

RAI Institute Releases Exploy to Ease Robot Policy Deployment

The RAI Institute has introduced Exploy, an open-source library that exports a reinforcement learning policy together with its full environment logic as one…

For developers
For developersOctober 7, 2026, 00:57

PyTorch's FBTriton Kernels for Table Batched Embeddings Beat Legacy CUDA

PyTorch has published a technical walkthrough of FBTriton, a Triton-based implementation of the Table Batched Embedding (TBE) forward and backward kernels used in…

For developers
For developersOctober 5, 2026, 22:45

PyTorch Consolidates Media Processing Around TorchCodec, TorchVision and TorchAudio

PyTorch has consolidated its media stack so that TorchCodec handles all decoding and encoding of images, video and audio, while TorchVision and TorchAudio concentrate on…

Chips and infrastructure
Chips and infrastructureOctober 5, 2026, 15:12

PyTorch Accelerator Group Reports H1 2026 Progress on Testing and CI

PyTorch's Accelerator Integration Working Group has published a report on its first-half 2026 work, centered on a new Cross-Repository CI Relay (CRCR) and a large…

For developers
For developersOctober 2, 2026, 21:55

Helion Brings Autotuned GEMM Kernels to vLLM, Beating CUTLASS and DeepGEMM on Hopper

The PyTorch team has integrated Helion, its Python-based kernel DSL, into vLLM's linear backend. According to the team, on NVIDIA Hopper GPUs it outperforms the vLLM…

For developers
For developersOctober 2, 2026, 21:33

PyTorch Launches Certification Pathway Bundling Courses and PTCA Exam

PyTorch has introduced a PyTorch Certified Associate (PTCA) Certification Pathway, which packages four self-paced learning modules and the PTCA exam into a single…

Research
ResearchOctober 2, 2026, 00:26

Meta's TLX Jagged Flash Attention Beats FA4 on Blackwell With 3x Less Code

Meta's team has built a Jagged Flash Attention (JFA) kernel for NVIDIA Blackwell B200 using TLX (Triton Low-level Extensions). According to the PyTorch blog post, it…

Modal Clusters reach general availability with one-line multi-node GPU access
Chips and infrastructureOctober 1, 2026

Modal Clusters reach general availability with one-line multi-node GPU access

Modal has made Modal Clusters generally available, letting developers run multi-node GPU workloads through a single decorator, @modal.clustered. According to the…

NVIDIA Dynamo-Triton Gets End-to-End HSTU Generative Recommender Workflow
For developersSeptember 30, 2026, 22:54

NVIDIA Dynamo-Triton Gets End-to-End HSTU Generative Recommender Workflow

NVIDIA Dynamo-Triton, formerly Triton Inference Server, now supports an end-to-end inference workflow for Hierarchical Sequential Transduction Unit (HSTU) generative…

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