Pytorch: the software layer underpinning Europe's AI ambitions
Europe has emerged as one of the world's leading centres for open-weight AI, with companies including Mistral, Black Forest Labs and Helsing contributing to a growing ecosystem focused on open models ... As Europe pursues AI sovereignty, the PyTorch Foundation believes the continent's greatest strength lies not just in building models, but in maintaining the open infrastructure that powers them. Software development Pytorch: the software layer underpinning Europe's AI ambitions As Europe pursues AI sovereignty, the PyTorch Foundation believes the continent's greatest strength lies not just in building models, but in maintaining the open infrastructure that powers them.
Key Takeaways
- Cate Lawrence 2 hours ago Share Share Send email Copy link Europe has emerged as one of the world's leading centres for open-weight AI, with companies including Mistral, Black Forest Labs and Helsing contributing to a growing ecosystem focused on open models and AI sovereignty.
Much of that ecosystem relies on PyTorch, the open source machine learning framework used by the vast majority of organisations training frontier AI models.
- They wanted researchers everywhere to use it, contribute to it and build an ecosystem around it.
Collier recalls: "This was six or seven years ago, before generative AI became mainstream.
- When a project moves into a neutral foundation, other companies are much more willing to invest in it, contribute code and build products around it because they know it isn't controlled by a single vendor that could change direction or lose interest.
"The PyTorch Foundation gave the project a permanent home, and since then adoption has only accelerated.
- Originally developed by Hugging Face as a secure alternative to Python' klo s pickle-based model format - which can execute arbitrary code during loading - SafeTensors is now being transitioned from company ownership to community stewardship.
Under the PyTorch Foundation, governance, trademarks and long-term stewardship will move to the Linux Foundation, while Hugging Face's maintainers will continue to oversee day-to-day development.
- " SafeTensors is designed to improve the security of AI models by ensuring that downloaded models can be executed safely without introducing malicious code.
Stats & Key Facts
- #Today, more than 90 per cent of AI laboratories developing frontier models use PyTorch.
As Europe pursues AI sovereignty, the PyTorch Foundation believes the continent's greatest strength lies not just in building models, but in maintaining the open infrastructure that powers them. Software development Pytorch: the software layer underpinning Europe's AI ambitions As Europe pursues AI sovereignty, the PyTorch Foundation believes the continent's greatest strength lies not just in building models, but in maintaining the open infrastructure that powers them. Cate Lawrence 2 hours ago Share Share Send email Copy link Europe has emerged as one of the world's leading centres for open-weight AI, with companies including Mistral, Black Forest Labs and Helsing contributing to a growing ecosystem focused on open models and AI sovereignty.
Much of that ecosystem relies on PyTorch, the open source machine learning framework used by the vast majority of organisations training frontier AI models. Earlier this year, I spoke with Mark Collier, Executive Director, PyTorch Foundation, at the PyTorch Paris conference. From Meta project to neutral foundation PyTorch originated at Meta, back when it was still Facebook.
It was created as an open source framework to help researchers train deep learning models. Even in its early days, the team recognised that this software was too fundamental to AI research to remain closed. They wanted researchers everywhere to use it, contribute to it and build an ecosystem around it.
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