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):

PyTorch Foundation is a Gold Sponsor of Agentic AI Summit 2026. Matt White, CTO of PyTorch Foundation, will lead “The Open Agentic Stack,” on building AI systems with open source, open standards, and composability. 🔗

New on the PyTorch Foundation blog: @AMD and @Meta contributors share how PyTorch Monarch was brought to AMD Instinct GPUs with ROCm to support fault tolerant distributed training at scale. The post walks through the ROCm port of Monarch’s GPU runtime and distributed communication stack, then shows how Monarch, TorchFT, and TorchTitan enable healthy replicas to continue training while failed nodes recover and rejoin without a full checkpoint restart. Validation includes Llama 3 8B training on a 128 GPU AMD Instinct MI300 SLURM cluster and a 256 GPU AMD Instinct MI355 Kubernetes cluster. Read the full technical deep dive:

Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin (ITBrief) reports on Shopify’s Platinum membership in PyTorch Foundation, including Shopify’s plans to contribute upstream engineering expertise and share experience from running machine learning systems in retail and commerce settings. "AI is becoming the operating layer for commerce, and we're convinced that layer needs to be open to reach global scale," said Mikhail Parakhin, Chief Technical Officer, Shopify. "PyTorch is central to how Shopify builds AI today. Joining the Foundation lets us invest in that base directly and help shape it for the agentic era, rather than just building on top of it." The coverage also details Shopify’s use of PyTorch across Sidekick, search and recommendation tools, fraud protection, and foundation model work tied to merchant tools. "We are excited to welcome Shopify to the PyTorch Foundation as our newest Platinum Member," said Mark Collier, Executive Director, PyTorch Foundation. "Shopify operates where AI meets real buyers and sellers every day, and that vantage point is exactly what the Foundation needs as agents become a front door to commerce. Read more:

As Europe’s AI sovereignty debate draws more attention to models, @tech_eu examines PyTorch’s role in the open source infrastructure that supports them. Cate Lawrence (@tech_eu) spoke with Mark Collier, Executive Director, PyTorch Foundation, about PyTorch as a common software layer for open-weight AI, neutral governance for critical AI infrastructure, and PyTorch Foundation’s expanding role as a home for projects including @vllm_project, @DeepSpeedAI, @raydistributed, and Helion. The article also covers SafeTensors moving toward community stewardship under PyTorch Foundation. As Lawrence writes, “For Collier, Europe's competitive advantage isn't simply producing more AI models — it's helping build the open infrastructure that allows an entire ecosystem of companies to innovate.” 🔗 Read it here: