Meta-Facebook launches the PyTorch Foundation to accelerate advances in artificial intelligence (AI) research.
The governing body will be composed of representatives not only from Meta, but also from AMD, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Nvidia.
The project will be part of the Linux Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports the development of free software.
PyTorch is an artificial intelligence software led by Meta researchers, it was launched in 2016 for applications such as computer vision and natural language processing, it has given life to over 150 thousand projects, Mark Zuckerberg points out in a post.
"The creation of the foundation ensures that in the coming years decisions are made in an open and transparent way by a diverse group of committee members - explains Santosh Janardhan, Meta Vice President of Infrastructure - The foundation will strive to respect four principles: stay open, maintain its neutral nature, guarantee fairness and shape a strong technical identity. One of its top priorities will be to clearly separate corporate governance from PyTorch's technical governance. "The purpose of the foundation is therefore to promote the adoption of tools for '' artificial intelligence, fostering and supporting an ecosystem of open source and supplier neutral projects with PyTorch;
make the most advanced tools, libraries and other AI components more accessible;
"Open science is the basis of our work in the field of AI - explains Meta - We believe that this approach accelerates progress in the development and deployment of new systems that will answer real needs and fundamental questions about the nature of artificial intelligence" .
