Passing the PyTorch – Protocol

Hello. and welcome to Protocol Enterprise! Today: why Meta just transferred stewardship of an important AI framework to the Linux Foundation, how last weeks California heat wave took out a Twitter data center, and the latest funding rounds raised in enterprise tech.

Meta is handing the reins for PyTorch, its popular open-source AI framework, to the nonprofit open-source software consortium Linux Foundation. PyTorch was designed to optimize deep learning, and gets its name from the AI programming language Python and open-source machine-learning library Torch.

The move shifts the commercial and marketing aspects of PyTorch to the Linux Foundations newly-launched PyTorch Foundation. But much of PyTorchs technical governance which has used a typical shared oversight model for years will stay the same, Meta engineer Soumith Chintala told me.

The transition could help chip away at the backlog of requests for PyTorch improvements.

Still, some worry that the Linux Foundation has too much power over enterprise tech.

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The Cloud Native Computing Foundations flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities in Detroit, Michigan from October 24 28, 2022. Register now and join thousands of attendees, including maintainers for CNCF's 140 Graduated, Incubating, and Sandbox projects, either virtually or in-person.

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