Meta hands over major AI framework to the Linux foundation

Recently we have seen a series of announcements from Meta concerning AI projects taking place at the rebranded Facebook’s HQ. These have included text to image AI, the third iteration of the company’s chatbot, and a rather impressive machine learning translation protocol. Today’s story relates to the PyTorch framework, which has been used in over 150,000 projects in recent years. Let’s check it out below.

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The PyTorch framework is a partnership between the AI team at Meta and the AI community that has been around for the last six years. The framework has seen work from over 2,4000 contributors and has been involved in the creation of over 150,000 projects including the likes of Uber and Tesla.

On Monday this week, Mark Zuckerberg posted on Facebook to say that Meta was moving PyTorch to a new project called the PyTorch Foundation, which would be governed under the Linux Foundation. Zuckerberg also mentioned that:

“The new PyTorch Foundation board will include many of the AI leaders who’ve helped get the community where it is today, including Meta and our partners at AMD, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Nvidia.”

According to a Meta blog post further explaining the move, the new governance framework is just that, a more effective and formal form of governance to steer the PyTorch Foundation in the right direction.

With open collaboration being such a key contributor to the success of the PyTorch framework and AI development in general, moving it over to the open-source advocates at the Linux Foundation is a very positive move from Meta. Furthermore, the company has said that it does plan to keep investing PyTorch and will still use it as its primary means of researching and developing further AI projects.

In other recent Facebook news, the company has recently disbanded its Responsible Innovation team.