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Developing story · 2 episodes · 20 Oct to 26 Oct

AI Chip Wars PyTorch Takes the Stage

The saga follows Google and Meta’s collaboration to open-source TorchTPU, a native PyTorch backend for TPUs, and Google and Amazon’s launch of PyTorch tools for their AI chips to rival Nvidia. The latest episode signals a shift toward broader PyTorch support across competing hardware platforms.

  1. Hardware & Computenew

    Google and Amazon launch PyTorch tools for their AI chips to compete with Nvidia

    Google and Amazon are challenging Nvidia’s dominance in AI hardware by releasing open-source tools that enable developers to run PyTorch workloads natively on their custom chips. Google’s TorchTPU…

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  2. Hardware & Computenew

    Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch backend for TPUs, co-developed with Meta

    Google announced on October 20, 2026, at the PyTorch Conference 2026 that TorchTPU, its native PyTorch stack for Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), is now available as open source on GitHub under the…

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