PyTorch Conference North America 2026: Accelerating Open Intelligence Together

PyTorch Conference North America 2026 brought 3,500+ attendees to San Jose on October 20–21 for two days focused on accelerating open intelligence and exploring the impact of PyTorch Foundation projects like PyTorch, vLLM, DeepSpeed, Ray, Helion, and Safetensors. PyTorch Foundation Executive Director, Mark Collier, set the stage for the entire event to demonstrate how the PyTorch Foundation is building the open source software to train and serve models on any chip, in any cloud, for any agent. Mark Collier’s opening keynotes connected work across research, models, frameworks, infrastructure, hardware, and production. Day 1 examined how shared advances across those layers help the community move faster together. Day 2 looked ahead to broader hardware participation, workloads moving across more environments, and training and customizing frontier models at greater scale. Recent milestones across the PyTorch ecosystem highlight how AI itself is joining the learning loop to improve code, kernels, and research workflows. Announcements and updates published during the conference and in the…