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Accelerating the Future of Open Source AI: PyTorch Conference 2025 Recap

By November 12, 2025No Comments

PyTorch Conference 2025 brought together 3,432 developers, researchers, and innovators from 1,026 organizations across the global AI ecosystem for two days of keynotes, technical sessions, and community connection. The program featured 22 keynotes, 103 sessions, and 113 poster presentations, reflecting the scale and diversity of the PyTorch community. Read the post-event report.

You can now view all recordings from the conference and its co-located events on the PyTorch YouTube Channel:

PyTorch Conference 2025 Session Recordings

PyTorch Conference 2025 Session Presentations

Recap Video:

Announcements

Three major announcements at PyTorch Conference 2025 highlighted the Foundation’s expanding collaboration across the open source AI ecosystem. Ray joined PyTorch Foundation to advance a unified, distributed compute stack that bridges training, inference, and large-scale deployment. Read Ray’s announcement.

Dell Technologies and Qualcomm joined as Premier Members, strengthening the Foundation’s ecosystem with expertise in infrastructure, AI systems design, and hardware acceleration.

Four new PyTorch-native libraries and technologies spanning kernel languages, distributed systems, reinforcement learning, and agentic frameworks were introduced by the Meta PyTorch team. ExecuTorch, a highly performant edge inference framework, was also released in general availability.

Helion: A High-Level DSL for Performant and Portable ML Kernels

Introducing PyTorch Monarch

Monarch + Lightning AI: Unlocking New Possibilities in Distributed Training

torchcomms: a modern PyTorch communications API

Introducing torchforge – a PyTorch native library for scalable RL post-training and agentic development

Introducing ExecuTorch 1.0: Powering the Next Generation of Edge AI

PyTorch Conference 2025 playlist

Open Agent Summit (co-located) playlist

Measuring Intelligence Summit (co-located) playlist

AI Infra Summit (co-located)

Highlights

Startup Showcase:

Congratulations to Donny Greenberg and Runhouse on winning the Startup Showcase!

Congratulations to Shrey Modi and CuraVoice on winning the Startup Showcase Community Choice Award.

Flare Party:

The Flare Party brought the community together for an evening of connection and celebration following the first full day of sessions. Attendees networked with fellow contributors, maintainers, and partners while enjoying music, refreshments, and over 130 poster presentations from researchers and practitioners across the PyTorch ecosystem.

PyTorch Associate Training:

This year, we introduced the instructor-led PyTorch Associate Training, providing participants with hands-on experience and a PTCA exam voucher upon completion.

Book Signings:

Attendees had the chance to meet authors Chip Huyen and Sebastian Raschka for exclusive book signings in the Exhibit Hall.

Llama Palooza:

Attendees met the llamas — pre-trained on PyTorch and fine-tuned for selfies — for light-hearted photos and a playful celebration of open AI in true PyTorch fashion.

Social Media Contest

Thank you to everyone who shared their experiences from PyTorch Conference 2025 using #PyTorchCon and #PyTorchLive. Your posts captured the energy, creativity, and collaboration that defined this year’s event.

PyTorch Conference Keynotes

Recognizing the PyTorch Foundation CICD Infrastructure Community (Eli Uriegas, Meta)

vLLM and DeepSpeed Updates (Simon Mo, UC Berkeley and Tunji Ruwase, Snowflake)

Ray: A Distributed Compute Engine for AI (Robert Nishihara, Anyscale and Ion Stoica, Anyscale)

The Physical Turing Test: Solving General Purpose Robotics (Jim Fan, NVIDIA)

From Transactions to Transformers: Hardware Built for Enterprise AI (Christian Jacobi, IBM Systems Development)

Olmo-Thinking: Training a Fully Open Reasoning Model (Nathan Lambert, Ai2)

Foundations for AI+Science (Animashree (Anima) Anandkumar, California Institute of Technology)

Build AI Anywhere with ROCm Software: AMD and PyTorch Bring Cloud-to-Client Power to Developers (Anush Elangovan, AMD)

PyTorch Technical Deep Dive (Alban Desmaison, Peng Wu, Mark Saroufim, Edward Yang, Meta)

Unlocking AI at Scale for PyTorch Developers (Jeff Gehlhaar, Qualcomm)

Agentic AI Panel moderated by Ben Lorica (Aparna Dhinakaran, Arize AI; Jerry Liu, LlamaIndex; Adam Jones, Pydantic)

Enabling PyTorch’s Thousand Ops for Software First Silicon Design (Andrew Ling, Groq)

Marin: An Open Lab for Frontier AI (Percy Liang, Together)

Signal vs. Noise: Betting on AI’s Next Wave (Sarah Catanzaro, Amplify Partners; Sarah Guo, Conviction; Brian Zhan, Striker Venture Partners; Peter Deng, Felicis; Moderated by Joe Spisak, Meta)

Robot Foundation Models (Sergey Levine, UC Berkeley)

Jeremy Howard, Founding Researcher at fast.ai in Conversation with Anna Tong, Forbes

Hardwares and Accelerators Panel (Dylan Patel, SemiAnalysis, Sharon Zhou, AMD, Peter Salanki, CoreWeave, Nitin Perumbeti, Crusoe, moderated by Mark Saroufim, Softw)

An OPEN Path to Super Intelligence (Eric Xing, MBZUAI, Genbio AI)

Open Agent Summit Keynotes:

Towards Building Safe and Secure Agentic AI (Dawn Song, UC Berkeley)

Building an Open Agentic Future (Samuel Colvin, Founder, Pydantic)

Measuring Intelligence Summit Keynotes:

Framing the Frontier of Machine Intelligence (Joe Spisak, Meta)

Noam Brown, Research Scientist at OpenAI in Conversation with Joe Spisak, Meta

AI Infra Summit Keynotes:

Scaling Intelligence: Infrastructure as the Foundation (Joe Spisak, Meta)

Building ML Systems Foundations at the Age of AI (Tianqi Chen, NVIDIA and CMU)

2025 PyTorch Contributor Awards

The 2025 PyTorch Contributor Awards honored community members whose work strengthened the foundation and reach of PyTorch. Read our announcement to learn more.

Award Winners
Vincent Moens – PyTorch Superhero
Mingfei Ma – PyTorchbearer
Eikan Wang – PyTorch Pacesetter
Irakli Salia – PyTorch Newcomer
Jiawei Li – PyTorch Ecosystem Champion
Aaron Gokaslan – PyTorch Rock Turner
Justin Silver – PyTorch Trail Blazer
Jonathan Dekhtiar – PyTorch Innovator
Xuehai Pan – PyTorch Problem Solver
Zingo Andersen – PyTorch Review Powerhouse
Zesheng Zong – Outstanding PyTorch Ambassador

Nominees:
Abdulsalam Yazid Bande, ghostspiders, Muhammed Tolga Cangöz, Yu Guangye, Masahiro Hiramori, Xu Han, Kaichao You, Simon Mo, Ralf Gommers, Logan Thomas, Sayak Paul, Hussain

Thank you to Meta for sponsoring the 2025 PyTorch Contributor Awards.

Exhibit Hall

The Exhibit Hall was the center of activity at PyTorch Conference 2025, featuring live demos, technical showcases, and interactive displays from across the PyTorch ecosystem. Attendees connected directly with contributors, researchers, and industry partners advancing open source AI, from model optimization and distributed systems to edge deployment and enterprise infrastructure.

Thank you to all organizations, startups, and community teams who exhibited this year. Your participation brought the ecosystem to life, inspired new collaborations, and gave attendees a hands-on look at the innovation happening across PyTorch and the broader open source AI community.

Thank You to the PyTorch Conference 2025 Planning Committee, Program Chairs, and Program Committee

Your leadership, insight, and collaboration helped shape this year’s program into our most ambitious yet, bringing together the global AI community for two days of keynotes, technical sessions, and connection in San Francisco.

Planning Committee: Sayce Falk (Google), Megan Knight (Arm), Rajko Radovanovic (a16z), Joe Spisak (Meta), Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley / Anyscale), Scott Suchyta (NVIDIA), Matt White (PyTorch Foundation)

Program Chairs: Jeff Daily (AMD), Alban Desmaison (Meta), Mike Ruberry (NVIDIA), Matt White (PyTorch Foundation)

Meet the committees.

Thank You to Our Sponsors

Your support made PyTorch Conference 2025 possible and helped bring together the global PyTorch and open source AI community in San Francisco.

Diamond: AMD, IBM, Meta, OpenTeams, Qualcomm
Platinum: Akash, Arm, AWS, Baseten, Crusoe, Google, Intel, Lambda Labs, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Snowflake, Susquehanna
Gold: Clockwork.io, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, D. E. Shaw Research, Huawei OSS, Jane Street, Jump Trading, Lemurian Labs, Lightning AI, Oracle, Rebellions, Simplismart
Silver: Anaconda, Anyscale, Databricks, Deque, Fal, Furiosa AI, Hugging Face, Modular, Outerbounds, Together AI, Ultralytics
Bronze: Clarifai, d-Matrix, MemVerge, SkyPilot, Wherobots
Startup, Non-Profit, and VC Partners: dstack, FriendliAI, LMCache Lab, Perforated AI, Portex AI, Runhouse, Thesys, Tigris, Velda, Wooly AI