20 October 2026
Google launches TorchTPU to run PyTorch AI code on its own chips
First reported
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- Google released TorchTPU, a version of the popular open-source PyTorch toolkit that lets developers run AI software on Google's TPU chips.
- PyTorch is used to build most AI applications, and until now those apps were mostly written to run on Nvidia's graphics chips.
- Developers can move existing models to Google's chips by changing a few configuration settings, without rewriting their code.
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