The Free Puppy: How to Responsibly Leverage Open Source AI
2025-11-06 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Over the past few decades, the trajectory of AI and open source software has evolved in tandem, but with the recent explosion of LLMs and foundation models, “open source AI” has become a catch phrase meaning so many things to so many different people. Some definitions of open source AI are so specific that they leave out hugely popular projects; other definitions focus specifically on models, and many AI projects marketed as open source don’t actually fit within the industry definition of open source. With so many different definitions floating around, how can you know what you are getting when you engage with open source AI?
In this talk, we will review what makes something open source from an industry perspective, what to look for when evaluating the health, stability, and practicality of open source AI projects (or any open source project for that matter), and why it’s so important to ensure transparency and explainability when deploying open source AI applications. In addition, in this webinar, we will cover licensing considerations, how to evaluate the health of open source projects, how and when to leverage open source, and the importance of community.
Mo McElaney leads Open Source Developer Programs at IBM Research. For more than a decade, Mo has worked in open source, focusing on cloud data services, quantum computing, machine learning, and ethics in AI. They are on the content committee for PyCon US, a contributor to version 3 of the Contributor Covenant and Hippocratic License with the Organization for Ethical Source, and on the board of the Vermont Technology Alliance. Mo is a certified master gardener with the University of Vermont and lives in frosty Vermont with their family, cats, and many plants.
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PyTorch at NeurIPS 2025
2025-12-02 08:00 - 2025-12-05 17:00 | San Diego, CA
PyTorch is heading to NeurIPS 2025 with an exciting presence across the conference. Visit our joint booth with CNCF, participate in two hands-on workshops, catch our featured talk, and join our Open Source AI Reception. See you at NeurIPS!
Workshop: Agentic AI/RL
December 2, 4:00–5:00 PM PT
🔗 https://nips.cc/virtual/2025/loc/san-diego/128662
Workshop: On Device/Edge AI
December 3, 12:00–1:30 PM PT
🔗 https://neurips.cc/virtual/2025/loc/san-diego/128674
Open Source AI Reception
December 3, 6:00–9:00 PM PT
🔗 Register to secure your spot: https://linuxfoundation.regfox.com/open-source-ai-reception-2025
Talk: Modular Agents and Orchestrated Coordination using Open Agentic Protocols: Foundations for the Next Wave of Agentic AI
December 4, 10:45–10:57 AM PT
Talk by Matt White
🔗 https://neurips.cc/virtual/2025/loc/san-diego/talk/127800

Open Source AI Reception 2025
2025-12-03 18:00 - 21:00 | San Diego, CA
Hosted by PyTorch Foundation and CNCF, the Open Source AI Reception brings together the community during NeurIPS 2025 for an evening focused on open source collaboration. The reception is presented with Anyscale, Featherless, Hugging Face, and Unsloth and offers a space for attendees to connect with others working across the open source AI ecosystem.
This gathering welcomes anyone at NeurIPS interested in open source AI and the projects, people, and ideas shaping its future.
Register: https://linuxfoundation.regfox.com/open-source-ai-reception-2025
6:00 PM–9:00 PM PT, Union Kitchen and Tap Gaslamp, San Diego, California, USA

Inside Helion: Live Q&A with the Developers
2025-12-11 11:00 - 12:00
Helion — a new Python-embedded domain-specific language (DSL) for wiring high-performance ML kernels — is built to compile down to Triton. Helion raises the level of abstraction for kernel authoring with PyTorch-centric syntax, making it dramatically easier to write correct, fast, and portable kernels. Its innovative autotuning system explores thousands of candidate Triton kernels to find the most performant implementation. Thus, automation handles complex, hardware-dependent details to ensure portability across different hardware architectures.
We dove into:

The design philosophy and architecture of Helion
How autotuning delivers state-of-the-art performance across GPUs
What’s next on the roadmap — and how you can get involved

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Bios:

Jason Ansel: Research Scientist at Meta and the creator of PyTorch Compiler and Helion DSL
Oguz Ulgen: Software Engineer at Meta and the creator of the PyTorch Compiler cache, working on Helion
Will Feng: Software Engineer at Meta, working on PyTorch Compiler and Helion
Jongsok Choi: Engineering Manager at Meta, supporting the PyTorch Compiler Backend (Inductor) team and Helion

PyTorch Conference 2026
2026-10-20 08:00 - 2026-10-21 17:00 | San Jose, CA
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October 20-21, 2026
San Jose, CA
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