PyTorch Foundation to foster an ecosystem of vendor-neutral projects alongside founding members AMD, AWS, Google Cloud, Meta, Microsoft Azure, and NVIDIA.
The Linux Foundation enables innovation through open source announced PyTorch is moving to the Linux Foundation from Meta, where it will live under the newly-formed PyTorch Foundation. Since its release in 2016, over 2400 contributors and 18,0000 organisations have adopted the PyTorch machine learning framework for academic research and production environments. The Linux Foundation will work with project maintainers, its developer community, and initial founding members of PyTorch to support the ecosystem at its new home.
Projects like PyTorch – which have the potential to become a foundational platform for critical technology – benefit from a neutral home. As part of the Linux Foundation, PyTorch and its community will benefit from many programs and support infrastructure like training and certification programs, research, and local to global events. Working inside and alongside the Linux Foundation, PyTorch will have access to the LFX collaboration portal – enabling mentorships and helping the PyTorch community identify future leaders, find potential hires, and observe shared project dynamics.
“Growth around AI/ML and Deep Learning has been nothing short of extraordinary – and the community embrace of PyTorch has led to it becoming one of the five-fastest growing open source software projects in the world,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director for the Linux Foundation. “Bringing PyTorch to the Linux Foundation, where its global community will continue to thrive, is a true honour. We are grateful to the team at Meta – where PyTorch was incubated and grown into a massive ecosystem – for trusting the Linux Foundation with this crucial effort.”
“Some AI news: we’re moving PyTorch, the open source AI framework led by Meta researchers, to become a project governed under the Linux Foundation. PyTorch has become one of the leading AI platforms, with more than 150,000 projects on GitHub built on the framework. The new PyTorch Foundation board will include many AI leaders who’ve helped get the community where it is today, including Meta and our AMD, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and NVIDIA partners. I’m excited to keep building the PyTorch community and advancing AI research,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Founder & CEO, Meta.
The Linux Foundation has named Dr Ibrahim Haddad, Vice President of Strategic Programs, as the Executive Director of the PyTorch Foundation. The PyTorch Foundation will support a strong member ecosystem with a diverse governing board, including founding members: AMD, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Meta, Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA. The project will promote the continued advancement of the PyTorch ecosystem through its thriving maintainer and contributor communities. The PyTorch Foundation will ensure the transparency and governance required of such critical open source projects while also continuing to support its unprecedented growth.
