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Google just open-sourced TorchTPU, a native PyTorch backend for TPUs (52% MFU on Qwen 3 8B)

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Google open-sourced TorchTPU today at PyTorch Conference 2026. It is a PyTorch backend for Cloud TPUs, co-developed with Meta's PyTorch team, and it replaces PyTorch/XLA. You target a TPU with torch.device("tpu") , run eager by default, and use torch.compile(backend="tpu") for production speed. Wha…

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  1. 2026-10-20 15:27 · r/machinelearningnews
    Google just open-sourced TorchTPU, a native PyTorch backend for TPUs (52% MFU on Qwen 3 8B)

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