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Relevant to AI governance discussions around who controls foundational AI infrastructure tools; PyTorch is one of the dominant frameworks used in AI safety and capabilities research alike.

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Meta announced the creation of the PyTorch Foundation under the Linux Foundation umbrella in September 2022, transitioning PyTorch's governance from Meta to a neutral, multi-stakeholder body. The foundation aims to foster open-source AI development and broader community collaboration across industry and academia. Founding members include AMD, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Nvidia.

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  • •PyTorch Foundation established as a neutral governance body under the Linux Foundation to oversee the widely-used open-source ML framework.
  • •Founding members include major AI industry players: AMD, Amazon Web Services, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Nvidia.
  • •Transition moves PyTorch governance away from Meta to a multi-stakeholder model, reducing single-company control over critical AI infrastructure.
  • •Foundation aims to support community-driven development, education, and adoption of PyTorch for AI research and production.
  • •Reflects broader trend of open-source AI tools requiring independent governance as their influence on AI capabilities grows.

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## Takeaways

- PyTorch, one of the leading community-driven AI research frameworks, is moving to a new, independent PyTorch Foundation that will be part of the Linux Foundation.
- The PyTorch Foundation will democratize access to state-of-the-art AI tools, libraries and other components to accelerate progress in AI.
- Meta will continue to invest in PyTorch and use it as our primary framework for AI research and production applications at the company.

Since2016,whenwepartneredwiththeAIcommunitytocreatethe[PyTorch](https://pytorch.org/)frameworkforAIresearch,opencollaborationhasbeenessentialtoitssuccess.Withthousandsofcontributorswhohavebuiltmorethan150,000projectsonit,PyTorchhasbecomeoneoftheleadingplatformsforresearchandproductionacrosstheAIcommunity.

Today, [MarkZuckerbergannounced](https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/pfbid0p7zmJ1SoeJieavzRAy9mYxJ9i1m28PRDzFC2NCFHe6RMsD7LbuGEu7WtG9ZckUoJl) thattheprojectwilltransitiontoanewlylaunchedPyTorchFoundation,whichwillbepartofthenonprofit[LinuxFoundation](https://www.linuxfoundation.org/),atechnologyconsortiumwhose [coremission](https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/)isthecollaborativedevelopmentofopen-sourcesoftware.

ThecreationofthePyTorchFoundationensuresthatdecisionswillbemadeinatransparentandopenmannerbyadiversegroupofboardmembersformanyyearstocome.ThegoverningbodywillbecomposedofrepresentativesfromAMD,AmazonWebServices,GoogleCloud,Meta,MicrosoftAzureandNvidia,withtheintentiontoexpandfurtherovertime.

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## OurCommitmenttoCommunity-DrivenAIResearch

PyTorchwasbuiltwithanopen-source,community-firstphilosophy,andthatwon’tchangewiththetransitiontotheFoundation.Whenresearchersanddevelopersopen-sourcetheircode,othersaroundtheworldcansharetheirwork,learnfromeachother’sadvancesandthencontributebacktotheAIcommunity.

Goingforward,theframework’scontributorswillbenefitfromtherobustgovernance,diverseleadershipandadditionalinvestmentsprovidedbythenewPyTorchFoundationpartners.TheFoundatio

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