PyTorch Newsletter

February, 2026

February 26, 2026No Comments

Welcome to the February edition of the PyTorch Foundation Newsletter. Inside: leadership and membership announcements, the live schedule for PyTorch Conference Europe in Paris, a recap of PyTorch Day India 2026, ambassador highlights, and recent technical blogs from across the ecosystem.

Announcements

Matt White PyTorch Foundation

PyTorch Foundation: The Next Chapter, Together

Matt White, CTO of PyTorch Foundation and Global CTO of AI at Linux Foundation, reflects on nearly two years as Executive Director and the Foundation’s growth into a multi-project home for PyTorch, vLLM, DeepSpeed, and Ray. Read here >>

 

Mark Collier

Why I’m Joining PyTorch Foundation

Mark Collier introduces himself as Executive Director and shares his perspective on the strategic importance of PyTorch Foundation’s hosted projects across training, inference, and orchestration. He outlines his focus on serving the communities that build and maintain these critical layers of AI infrastructure. Read here >>

 

PyTorch Foundation New Members

PyTorch Foundation Announces New Members as Agentic AI Demand Grows

PyTorch Foundation welcomed nine new members since December 2025, adding five Silver and four Associate members. New Silver members include Clockwork.io, Emmi AI, National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA), Nota AI, and yasp.ai. New Associate members include Carnegie Mellon University, CommonAI CIC, Monash University, and University of Leicester. Read more >>

Upcoming Events

PyTorch Conference Europe 2026

PyTorch Conference Europe 2026 schedule is now live. Join the community April 7–8 in Paris for 95+ sessions across eight tracks dedicated to framework development, applied AI, infrastructure, and research. Featured sessions include talks from Pure Storage, Hugging Face, and Meta. Register >>

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference China 2026

September 8–9 in Shanghai, this co-located event brings together the OpenInfra, cloud native, and AI communities for two days of technical sessions and cross-project collaboration across Kubernetes, OpenStack, PyTorch, and related open technologies. Event overview and registration >>

Recent Events

PyTorch Day India 2026 Recap

The inaugural PyTorch Day India in Bengaluru brought 460 in-person attendees together for technical talks on kernels, compilers, inference, and production AI systems, reflecting continued global engagement across the PyTorch community. Read here >>

Community Events

Member Round Up

Helion Autotuning

Meta: Accelerating Autotuning in Helion with Bayesian Optimization

 

 

 

 

Pyrefly

Meta: Pyrefly Now Type Checks PyTorch

 

 

 

 

Mamba2

IBM: Accelerating Mamba2 with Kernel Fusion

 

 

 

 

Matrix Multiplication

IBM: Some Matrix Multiplication Engines Are Not As Accurate As We Thought

 

 

 

 

Paged Attention

IBM: Portable Paged Attention in Helion

 

 

 

 

Llama 3.1

Meta: Unlock Reasoning in Llama 3.1-8B via Full Fine-Tuning on NVIDIA DGX Spark

 

 

 

 

Inference System

Meta: Building Highly Efficient Inference System for Recommenders Using PyTorch

 

 

 

 

PyTorch Ambassador Highlights (December 2025–January 2026)

Over the past two months, ambassadors organized impactful events, led technical workshops, expanded regional communities, and launched new initiatives that reflect the dedication and creativity of the PyTorch global network. Thank you to all our ambassadors for your continued efforts in growing and representing the PyTorch community worldwide.

Turkiye

Turkiye – Campus Deep Learning Day (December 13): Dr. Eyup Cinar organized the first PyTorch Campus Deep Learning Day at Eskisehir Technical University in Eskisehir, Turkiye. The event focused on PyTorch fundamentals, modules, and building custom neural network models within the broader PyTorch ecosystem.
Michigan

Michigan, USA (November 22–December 31): Ankita Guha delivered a live workshop at Google Michigan DevFest 2025 titled “Visualizing Neural Network Training with PyTorch.” The session drew strong engagement, with approximately 40 in-person attendees and the room reaching capacity. The talk generated 2,276 LinkedIn impressions.
Nepal

Nepal (December–January): Arun Bhandari successfully organized a PyTorch meetup in Nepal with 110+ attendees, further strengthening the local community. He also launched the PyTorch Community Nepal LinkedIn page, which has connected with nearly 440 members and generated 5,743 impressions.
DR Congo

DR Congo (December 11–13): Pacifique Mugisho organized and delivered hybrid PyTorch workshop sessions at Deep Learning IndabaX DRC 2025, hosted at the Université Pédagogique Nationale (UPN) in Kinshasa. The sessions reached 151 participants (60 onsite, 91 online).
Nigeria

Enugu, Nigeria (December): Ugama Benedicta Kelechi spoke at DevFest Enugu 2025, delivering a session on PyTorch Lightning aimed at developers, students, and early-career engineers. The session demonstrated how PyTorch Lightning simplifies machine learning workflows.

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