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I installed Google's TorchTPU wheel — 969MB — on a machine with no TPU and ran the README example

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On October 20, at PyTorch Conference 2026, Google open-sourced TorchTPU: a native PyTorch backend for its TPU chips, co-developed with Meta's PyTorch team, and positioned as the replacement for PyTorch/XLA. The pitch is portability. TPUs join GPUs and CPUs as a native PyTorch device; existing code…

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    I installed Google's TorchTPU wheel — 969MB — on a machine with no TPU and ran the README example

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