PyTorch Foundation supported the ExecuTorch Hackathon in San Francisco, where more than 100 participants across 20+ teams built real-time AI applications using PyTorch and ExecuTorch. Teams built on Snapdragon-powered Samsung Electronics Galaxy S25 Ultra devices, focusing on latency, offline capability, privacy-sensitive processing, energy efficiency, and real-time user experience. Congratulations to the winning teams: 1st Place: SafeScreen AI, an on-device visual safety layer 2nd Place: SixthSense, an assistive wearable that converts visual information into directional haptic signals 3rd Place: Toddle AI, a privacy-first prototype for analyzing toddler walking patterns locally The winning projects showed how local execution can support applications that require immediate feedback, limited connectivity, or sensitive data processing. Read the full recap from @matthew_d_white (PyTorch Foundation), Andrew Caples (@Meta), and Lauren Lunde (@Qualcomm):

💡A Schelling Gate could become the sole executor on a @multisig: 1️⃣Squads members approve an exact transaction. 2️⃣The Gate produces a dispute on Accord dispute. 3️⃣Jurors review build artifacts, audits, rationale, and consequences. 4️⃣Only an ACCEPT ruling lets the Gate execute that exact payload. 5️⃣Any changed payload requires a new ruling. That's just multisig with extra steps, right? Almost, but a dispute on Accord can be appealed by anyone before the final verdict. Jurors are selected by token holders. Sounds like an concept worth discussing @MetaDAOProject @realmsdaos

Faster streaming speech recognition on @Arm edge devices: see how ExecuTorch, SME2, FP16 and QC8W balance accuracy and latency—delivering up to 2.12× faster processing on Pixel 11. Read our latest blog: ✍ Josiah Davis, Kshitij Sisodia

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