The #PyTorchCon# North America countdown has hit double digits! 🔟 In 10 DAYS, 400+ speakers and 3,500+ attendees will meet in San Jose to talk training, inference, agents, kernels, open source AI, and everything in between. Join us October 20-21:

Tomorrow at #PyTorchCon#, join d-Matrix Principal Engineer Tristan Webb for a Demo Theater session on how PyTorch can help accelerate kernel development for custom AI hardware. dmx-compressor: Accelerating the Development of Kernels for Custom ASIC Hardware 🕧 Wednesday, October 21 | 12:35 PM 📍 Community Expo, Concourse Level #PyTorchCon# #AIInfrastructure# #AIInference# #dMatrix#

PyTorch Ambassador and #PyTorchCon# North America 2026 program committee member Masahiro Hiramori (@mshrh3), @ME_JP_official, will be following work across on-device AI, efficient inference, voice agents, and machine learning compilers at this year’s conference. He's also looking forward to exchanging ideas with other developers and seeing what the broader PyTorch community is building. Register for PyTorch Conference North America 2026:

Your next favorite #PyTorchCon# North America session might take only 10 minutes. ⏱️ Visit the Demo Theater in the Community Expo for compact demos with plenty of compute. Schedule: Join us Oct 20-21 in San Jose:

A round of applause for our #PyTorchCon# North America diamond sponsor Google. From bare metal infrastructure to agent based systems, it's all on the agenda in San Jose, CA on October 20-21. Learn more:

vLLM @vllm_project sessions at #PyTorchCon# NA 2026 span the serving stack, from attention and KV cache management to disaggregated serving and hardware portability across accelerators. Speakers will cover attention and KV cache systems, disaggregated serving, expert parallelism, and vLLM across TPU, Trainium, Arm, and IBM Spyre. Featured speakers include: @RedHat: Lucas Wilkinson, Matthew Bonanni, Zhanqiu Hu, @rickynds, and Alex Brooks @amazon: Sunita Nadampalli @IBM: Or Ozeri, Thomas Parnell, and Dave Grove @Huawei: Mengqing Cao @nvidia: Itay Alroy @Google: @Rob_Mulla and Qi Zhou @awscloud: Maen Suleiman @Meta: Richard Zou, Colin Taylor, and Angela Yi @BAAIBeijing: Yonghua Lin @fujitsulabs: Abhishek Jain and N Maajid Khan @IBMResearch: Antoni Viros i Martin and Avery Blanchard @MistralAI: Nicolò Lucchesi @tensormesh: @this_will_echo @googlecloud: Bill Jia Register by September 4 to save: Read the vLLM session guide:

Sponsor news from @CrusoeAI: We’ll be in San Jose for #PyTorchCon# North America Oct 20-21. 🎤 Talks on Triton, MoE fine-tuning + model customization 🤖 Booth demos + challenges 🍻 AI Infra Night with @dstackai, @sgl_project (@lmsysorg) Learn more: Register for AI Infra Night: 🔗 #PyTorchFoundation#

We ❤️ our ambassadors. The ambassador meetup at #PyTorchCon# North America was a good time to connect and make plans for the year ahead. PyTorch Foundation Ambassadors help grow our projects (PyTorch, vLLM, DeepSpeed, Ray, Helion, & Safetensors) around the world by organizing events, creating educational content, mentoring new users, and contributing to the open source ecosystem. Meet all of your PyTorch Foundation ambassadors:

Next week, d-Matrix is heading to #PyTorchCon# in San Jose. Stop by the d-Matrix booth to meet the team and join d-Matrix Principal Engineer Tristan Webb for his session. “Accelerating the Development of Kernels for Custom ASIC Hardware” 🕧 Wednesday, October 21 | 12:35 PM 📍 Community Expo, San Jose Convention Center #AIInference# #AIInfrastructure# #PyTorch# #dMatrix#

A conference for people doing the work. 💪 #PyTorchCon# North America, Oct 20-21 in San Jose, brings together a hands-on community of developers, researchers, engineers, maintainers, and practitioners building with #AI# and ML. Come meet the people building what’s next.