source: pytorch blog: alibaba cloud joins the pytorch foundation as a platinum member
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alibaba cloud has joined the pytorch foundation as a platinum member. the company runs pytorch at scale across various hardware on its cloud platform. it plans to contribute engineering expertise in ai compiler optimization, multi-chip compatibility, and large-scale stability to the upstream community. alibaba cloud also maintains its own pytorch distribution that closely tracks the upstream, delivering high performance and stability for large-scale ai workloads internally and for cloud customers.
the company's commitment to heterogeneous hardware support drives its deep engagement with pytorch. it ensures consistent framework quality and compatibility across a wide range of accelerators, providing developers with a unified experience regardless of the underlying hardware. pytorch at alibaba powers large-cluster training and inference workloads internally and underpins key ecosystem projects including sglang, vllm, pai-turbox, and torcheasyrec, serving customers across production-scale llm training and inference, autonomous driving, embodied ai, and recommendation systems.
as a platinum member, alibaba cloud gains a seat on the pytorch foundation governing board. junhua wang, vice president of alibaba cloud, joins the board, while tao ma, principal engineer, joins the technical advisory council. the foundation welcomes alibaba's support for open source and its recent launch of new ai accelerators powered by pytorch, which will help sustain the entire ai lifecycle from training to production-grade inference.
why it matters: alibaba cloud's membership strengthens the pytorch ecosystem with production-scale engineering and hardware support, benefiting developers building large-scale ai systems.
source: pytorch blog: alibaba cloud joins the pytorch foundation as a platinum member