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PyTorch Foundation Expands to Umbrella Foundation and Welcomes vLLM and DeepSpeed Projects

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PARIS, May 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The PyTorch Foundation, a community-driven hub for open source AI, today announced its expansion into an umbrella foundation. As part of this milestone, two leading open source AI projects—vLLM and DeepSpeed—have been accepted into the foundation by the Technical Advisory Council. This expansion positions the PyTorch Foundation as the trusted home for a broad range of community-driven AI projects spanning the entire AI lifecycle—from training and inference and domain-specific applications to agentic frameworks.

As artificial intelligence becomes a critical driver of global innovation and competitive advantage, enterprises are under pressure to adopt scalable, secure, and future-focused AI solutions. With global GenAI spending forecasted to hit $644 billion this year, and demand growing for open source AI alternatives, the PyTorch Foundation is positioning itself as a vendor-neutral home for trusted and innovative new AI projects. The foundation will support the development of the next generation of open source AI tooling, ensuring interoperability, reducing vendor lock-in, and enabling faster integration of trusted, production-grade technologies. With transparent governance and broad industry collaboration, the PyTorch Foundation is playing a crucial role in shaping the infrastructure enterprises rely on to build and deploy responsible AI at scale.

“This is an exciting new chapter for the PyTorch Foundation and the broader open source AI ecosystem,” said Matt White, Executive Director of the PyTorch Foundation. “By transitioning to an umbrella foundation, we’re not only formalizing the momentum we’ve built across the PyTorch ecosystem—we’re creating space for new projects and innovators to thrive within a vendor-neutral, open governance environment.”

The decision to expand to an umbrella foundation is a natural evolution of the PyTorch Foundation’s rapid growth and global momentum. In just two and a half years, the organization has grown to include over 30 member companies and 120 vibrant ecosystem projects, and PyTorch itself has become the preferred framework for AI research and deployment. The new umbrella structure will support a broader portfolio of high-impact projects, foster deeper collaboration across domains, and help scale innovation throughout the AI lifecycle.

The PyTorch Foundation’s expanded scope allows it to host two new categories of projects:

Platform Projects – Solutions that support multiple stages of the AI lifecycle, including training, inference, model optimization, deployment, and agentic systems.

Vertical Projects – Tools tailored for specific industries and applications, such as bioinformatics, geospatial intelligence, and protein folding.

Projects accepted under the PyTorch Foundation benefit from neutral IP governance, strategic support, increased visibility, and a global community of contributors. The PyTorch Foundation distinguishes between ecosystem projects, which remain independently governed, and foundation-hosted projects, which adopt the foundation’s open governance model and receive comprehensive operational support.

The first two projects accepted into the PyTorch Foundation as hosted projects are:

vLLM – An open and efficient inference engine for large language models. vLLM enables high-throughput, low-latency LLM serving through optimized memory management and scheduling techniques, including PagedAttention. It supports popular model architectures and is designed to maximize hardware utilization, making LLM inference more scalable and cost-effective across a range of deployments. Learn more about the contribution of vLLM to the PyTorch Foundation here.

DeepSpeed – A distributed training library that simplifies scaling AI workloads. DeepSpeed provides a suite of optimization techniques—such as ZeRO (Zero Redundancy Optimizer), 3D parallelism, and inference acceleration—to enable training of extremely large models efficiently. It is used extensively in both academic research and production environments to push the limits of model size, speed, and efficiency. Learn more about the contribution of DeepSpeed to the PyTorch Foundation here.

The PyTorch Foundation is committed to fostering the growth and adoption of open source AI solutions and tooling. Communities interested in joining the PyTorch Foundation’s expanding ecosystem can learn more about the process for becoming a project here.

Supporting Quotes

“AMD has been a consistent supporter of open source software and the community of open source AI projects. We are excited about this expansion of the PyTorch Foundation, which provides a great opportunity for important AI projects to mature in an open and vendor-neutral ecosystem.”
– Ramine Roane, Corporate Vice President of AI Product Management, AMD

“At Arm, we believe collaboration is essential to empower developers and accelerate AI innovation from cloud to edge. The expansion of the PyTorch Foundation is a major milestone for the open source AI community—by providing a trusted home for projects like vLLM and DeepSpeed, the PyTorch Foundation is helping to unlock scalable, efficient AI and we’re proud to support this important evolution.”
– Alex Spinelli, Senior Vice President, AI and Developer Platforms and Services, Arm

“Open source frameworks are essential to advancing AI development, which is why AWS has been committed to the long-term success of the PyTorch ecosystem since its early days and through our continued support of the PyTorch Foundation. Expanding to an umbrella foundation highlights the rapid growth of this community and will make it easier to support a broader portfolio of high-impact projects, foster deeper collaboration across domains, and help scale innovation throughout the AI lifecycle.”
– Brian Granger, Senior Principal Technologist of AI Platforms, Amazon Web Services

“DeepSpeed is delighted to become a hosted Platform project in the PyTorch Foundation. From inception, DeepSpeed has built on PyTorch, with critical dependencies on features such as Module, Tensor, Distributed, and Compiler. We are eager to leverage this closer integration with the PyTorch ecosystem to achieve our goal of providing open and democratized access to state-of-the-art AI technologies for all.”
– Olatunji Ruwase, Project Lead, DeepSpeed

“Google congratulates the PyTorch Foundation on its expansion into an umbrella foundation. This evolution is poised to not only champion important open source AI projects like vLLM and DeepSpeed, but is also a significant step forward in cultivating deeper collaboration and driving innovation within the AI community. We look forward to continuing to collaborate with the foundation and contributing to the expanded ecosystem.”
– Joe Pamer, Senior Director, ML Frameworks and Compilers, Google

“As a significant contributor to vLLM, DeepSeed and PyTorch, Huawei welcomes their move to the foundation. We believe the professional services offered under the umbrella model will foster continued growth and value for users and developers.”
– Li Yongle, General Manager of Open Source Development, Huawei’s Computing Product Line

“Super excited for vLLM and DeepSpeed to join the PyTorch Foundation as it becomes an umbrella foundation. These packages are essential tools in the deep learning stack and integrate seamlessly with PyTorch. This is a strategic move that ensures future growth and maintenance for them.”
– Lysandre Debut, Chief Open-Source Officer, Hugging Face

“As a pivotal member of the PyTorch community for years, IBM applauds the expansion of the PyTorch Foundation to an umbrella foundation. This shift provides opportunities to support projects such as vLLM and others across the entire AI model lifecycle, from training to tuning to inference. An umbrella organization structure will support new workstreams underpinned by essential AI governance principles, accelerating performance in a new era of open, responsible AI.”
– Sriram Raghavan, VP, IBM Research AI

“As a premier member of the PyTorch Foundation, Intel is excited about the foundation’s expansion into an umbrella model. This strategy empowers developers with essential resources and support, enabling them to create innovative, community-driven AI projects that tackle real-world challenges.”
– Kismat Singh, VP, Engineering for AI Frameworks, Intel Corporation

“PyTorch sits at the very core of AI today. Meanwhile, the depth of the AI stack has grown dramatically—evolving from enabling accelerated compute to powering fully autonomous systems. Broadening the PyTorch Foundation is a key step in keeping the AI revolution open and accessible to all, across the stack and aligned with the principles PyTorch was built on.”
– Luca Antiga, CTO, Lightning AI

“Today PyTorch plays such a fundamental role in the AI space underpinning Llama, ChatGPT and so many other influential projects. This move to create an umbrella foundation enables PyTorch to significantly expand its ecosystem both horizontally and vertically in this era of agentic systems. I really believe this will usher in a new wave of innovation, and I’m especially excited about vLLM and DeepSpeed joining. These projects have a strong history of being critical to AI’s advances and it’s exciting that we are joining forces to grow this amazing community!”
– Joe Spisak, Product Director for PyTorch, Meta

“The PyTorch Foundation plays a vital role in advancing the PyTorch ecosystem by driving innovation, supporting education, and fostering community collaboration. Its expansion to an umbrella foundation helps ensure the long-term success of open source tools and creates the conditions necessary to welcome new projects that are essential to the future of open source AI.”
– Ujval Kapasi, VP of Deep Learning Software, NVIDIA

“At Snowflake, we believe that empowering the AI community is fundamental, and strengthening the open, vendor-neutral foundation around pivotal projects like these is crucial for progress. It’s truly exciting to witness the PyTorch Foundation evolve into an umbrella organization and welcome essential projects like DeepSpeed and vLLM. Having been part of the PyTorch ecosystem, I deeply appreciate the significance of this strategic move. We eagerly anticipate the accelerated innovation this closer collaboration within the PyTorch Foundation will bring.”
– Dwarak Rajagopal, VP of AI Engineering and Research, Snowflake

“We’re excited that vLLM is one of the first Platform Projects joining the PyTorch Foundation. vLLM is built on top of PyTorch with deep integration such as Torch Compile and multi-hardware support. We look forward to further collaborating with the ecosystem that powers innovations in open source and vendor neural technologies for AI.”
– Simon Mo, Project Co-Lead, vLLM

About the PyTorch Foundation
The PyTorch Foundation is a community-driven hub supporting the open source PyTorch framework and a broader portfolio of innovative open source AI projects. Hosted by the Linux Foundation, the PyTorch Foundation provides a vendor-neutral, trusted home for collaboration across the AI lifecycle—from model training and inference, to domain-specific applications. Through open governance, strategic support, and a global contributor community, the PyTorch Foundation empowers developers, researchers, and enterprises to build and deploy responsible AI at scale. Learn more at https://pytorch.org/foundation.

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Sapient Insights Group Reveals the HR Technology Solutions Ranking Highest in Vendor Satisfaction and User Experience for 2026

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Voice of the Customer badges awarded across 23 HR technology categories, based on 10,000 responses to Sapient’s 2026-2027 Annual HR Systems Survey

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Sapient Insights Group today revealed the HR technology solutions ranking highest in vendor satisfaction and user experience in its 2026-2027 HR Systems Survey, now in its 29th year. This year Sapient awarded 630 Voice of the Customer badges across 23 technology categories and three company sizes. The rankings are based on responses from HR professionals representing 6,038 organizations.

Stacey Harris, Chief Research Officer and Managing Partner at Sapient Insights Group, presents the HR technology solutions ranking highest in vendor satisfaction and user experience for 2026.

To help buyers find the providers that fit their organization, the rankings are split into three company sizes: small, mid-sized, and enterprise. Respondents rate their satisfaction with their current solution in each technology category on a scale of 1 to 5, with attention to support and service. Sapient also ranks solutions on user experience. The top five solutions in each category and size earn a badge for vendor satisfaction and a badge for user experience. Three categories with smaller sample sizes (Time Labor Budgeting, Contingent Workforce Management, and Skills Management) are ranked in aggregate across all company sizes.

The survey continues to grow with the HR technology market. New this year, the survey adds Compliance Management to the HR Blueprint, application-level outcome questions, payment models for applications and AI, and finance applications covering Core, Expense, and Planning. It also asks more “why” questions throughout, so the results show not just what organizations are doing but the reasons behind their choices.

“Our Voice of the Customer rankings come straight from HR practitioners, with no sponsorship involved, which is why buyers and vendors both pay attention to them,” said Stacey Harris, chief research officer and managing partner at Sapient Insights Group. “This year we expanded the rankings to cover more of the HR technology landscape, which gives buyers a clearer view of how solutions perform for the specific work they need done, not just at the suite level. It also gives vendors honest feedback from the people who use their products every day.”

The highest-ranking solutions for vendor satisfaction are listed below. Rankings include point solutions, modules within technology suites, and in some cases service providers.

Payroll
Dayforce – Enterprise
isolved – Mid-sized
BambooHR – Small

HR Management
Dayforce – Enterprise
HiBob – Mid-sized
BambooHR – Small

Benefits
Businessolver – Enterprise
Fidelity NetBenefits/PSW – Mid-sized
HiBob – Small

HR Service Delivery: Portal
Dovetail – Enterprise
Workday Help – Mid-sized
isolved – Small

HR Service Delivery: Content Management
Dovetail – Enterprise
DocuSign – Mid-sized
isolved – Small

HR Service Delivery: Employee Help Desk
Dovetail – Enterprise
ServiceNow – Mid-sized
isolved – Small

HR Service Delivery: Engagement Survey
Dovetail – Enterprise
isolved – Mid-sized
BambooHR – Small

Time and Attendance
Darwinbox – Enterprise
isolved – Mid-sized
isolved – Small

Absence Management
Darwinbox – Enterprise
isolved – Mid-sized
BambooHR – Small

Leave Management
Darwinbox – Enterprise
isolved – Mid-sized
isolved – Small

Workforce Scheduling
Darwinbox – Enterprise
isolved – Mid-sized
isolved – Small

Labor Budgeting
isolved – All sizes

Learning
Cornerstone – Enterprise
OpenSesame – Mid-sized
isolved – Small

Recruiting
Indeed – Enterprise
Greenhouse – Mid-sized
BambooHR – Small

Onboarding
Dayforce – Enterprise
isolved (ApplicantPro) – Mid-sized
BambooHR – Small

Performance
Dayforce – Enterprise
HiBob – Mid-sized
BambooHR – Small

Compensation
Dayforce – Enterprise
Payscale Payfactors – Mid-sized
Insperity – Small

Succession
Dayforce – Enterprise
Microsoft Glint – Mid-sized
Paylocity – Small

Rewards and Recognition
Awardco – Enterprise
isolved – Mid-sized
Gifted – Small

Analytics
Visier – Enterprise
Visier – Mid-sized
UKG People Analytics – Small

AI/ML
Visier Vee – Enterprise
Grammarly – Mid-sized
Anthropic Claude – Small

Contingent Workforce Management
ServiceNow – All sizes

Skills Management HiBob – All sizes

The complete Voice of the Customer results, including the top five solutions for vendor satisfaction and user experience in every category and company size, are available here (https://sapientinsights.com/top-vendors/).

Sapient Insights Group will publish detailed survey findings and analysis in its annual HR Systems Research Report on November 6, 2026. The report will be available to purchase here (https://sapientinsights.com/shop/).

About the 2026-2027 HR Systems Survey

Now in its 29th year, Sapient’s HR Systems Survey is the longest-running, most comprehensive survey of the HR technology landscape, and the only fully objective, non-sponsored study of its kind. This year, HR professionals representing 6,038 organizations around the globe took part. The survey now covers 23 technology categories. The annual report includes an in-depth look at each category, along with current and future adoption rates, customer retention, replacement plans, and projected vendor growth.

For more information about the survey and report, schedule a call (https://calendly.com/summerorellano/schedule-a-call-with-sapient-insights-group).

About Sapient Insights Group Sapient Insights Group is a certified women-owned, privately-owned consulting, research, and advisory firm. The company works with organizations in the areas of HR and finance technology; HR strategy and transformation; leadership and culture; change management; talent management; mergers and acquisitions; and project management. The company’s HR Systems Survey is the HR profession’s most trusted source for objective data on the HR technology market and insights to guide buyer investments and vendor product development and marketing. For more information, visit www.sapientinsights.com.

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SAJ Debuts First CEC-Approved Systems under Australia’s New Battery Standard at All Energy 2026

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EK70 HS5 and EK90 HS5 on show at Stand M143, with Australia’s Strongest Man at Stand E01 and the SAJ range across three distributor stands

MELBOURNE, Australia, Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — SAJ will exhibit at All Energy Australia 2026 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre on 28–29 October. At Stand M143, installers can get their first hands-on look at the EK70 HS5 and EK90 HS5, the first products approved under Australia’s new SA TS 5398 standard.

At 2pm on Wednesday 28 October, DEKRA and CCS will present SAJ with the CEC certificates for the EK70 HS5 and EK90 HS5 on the stand, making SAJ the first brand listed under SA TS 5398. SAJ and DEKRA will also sign a strategic cooperation agreement covering safety, quality and compliance.

On the stand

EK70 HS5 – the all-in-one home energy system, combining hybrid inverter, LFP battery and whole-home backup in one unit. Modular 6, 7 and 9 kWh battery blocks stack to suit the household.EK90 HS5 – the premium tier, with 12,000-cycle cells, nine-layer safety protection, edge AI and a 15-year warranty.B2S and H2 – modular storage and the latest from SAJ’s residential range.elekeeper 5.0 – SAJ’s energy management app, with AI-assisted design, five-minute app commissioning and remote diagnosis.C&I – SAJ’s latest commercial and industrial solutions.

Live demonstrations of the EK70 HS5 and EK90 HS5, elekeeper 5.0 and the C&I range run at 10am on both days and again at 3pm on Wednesday.

Visitors can also play the claw machine on the stand throughout both days to win tennis balls signed by SAJ brand ambassador Alex de Minaur.

Beat Australia’s Strongest Man of 2026 at Stand E01

At Stand E01, near the hall entrance, visitors can take on Bradman Houston, Australia’s Strongest Man 2026, on the high striker. Bradman will be there each day. Anyone who beats his score wins!

Bradman recently partnered with SAJ and Sydney Solar & Electrical on a video series about lifting technique and fitness for solar installers, now on SAJ’s Instagram.

SAJ across the floor

The SAJ range is also on show with the company’s three national distribution partners, for stock, pricing and account conversations:

One Stop Warehouse – Stand EE113, with the EK90 HS5 on displaySupply Partners – Stand L135Tradezone – Stand S113

“All Energy is where the industry sees what’s next, and for SAJ that’s the EK70 HS5 and EK90 HS5,” said Alan Li, the Sales Director of SAJ Electric Australia. “Installers told us they want one integrated system that’s faster to install and that they can stand behind. Being the first brand listed under SA TS 5398 is the proof. We’d love installers to see both systems up close at Stand M143, and to try their luck against Bradman at E01 while they’re there.”

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Where: Stand M143 (Beat the Strongest Man at Stand E01), Melbourne Convention and Exhibition CentreWhen: Wednesday 28 – Thursday 29 October 2026More information: au.saj-electric.com

About SAJ

Founded in Guangzhou in 2005, SAJ (Guangzhou Sanjing Electric Co., Ltd.) is a specialist in smart energy storage, delivering integrated solutions across solar generation, battery storage, energy management and EV charging for residential and commercial customers. SAJ has operated in Australia since 2013 and works with three national distribution partners – One Stop Warehouse, Supply Partners and Tradezone – backed by local technical support and warranty infrastructure.

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Starvia Automotive Expands Used-Car Exports to Afghanistan and Iran

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GUANGZHOU, China, Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Starvia Automotive has added Afghanistan and Iran to the destinations covered by its used-car export business, the company said on Oct. 21, as it focuses on used vehicles built to Chinese-market specifications. Buyers in both markets can now request an assessment of a specific vehicle before an order is confirmed.

What the review covers

For a used vehicle, the model name alone does not determine whether an export order can proceed. Year of manufacture, vehicle identity, condition, ownership documents and destination import rules are reviewed for each request, together with carrier acceptance, transit requirements and payment restrictions, according to the company.

Starvia cited two listings in its online used-car catalog as examples of the process: a 2023 Volkswagen Polo and a 2021 Volkswagen Tharu. The company said the listings show published stock and do not confirm that either unit is available or eligible for import into both markets. Stock, vehicle records and destination suitability are confirmed before a model is presented as an order option.

How an inquiry is handled

Inquiries are submitted through the company’s online form, which asks for destination city, importer details, preferred vehicle, quantity and purchasing timeframe. Starvia said the information is used to identify suitable vehicles, check documentation and seek a transport option, and that alternatives can be discussed if the first model does not meet the requirements.

An Arabic-language version of the site is available at https://www.starviaauto.com/ar?utm_source=prnews for buyers who prefer Arabic.

Any vehicle offer, freight estimate or shipment timing remains subject to commercial, regulatory and logistics checks, the company said. Buyers should obtain destination-side import approval before committing to a purchase.

About Starvia Automotive

Starvia Automotive is a Guangzhou-based exporter of new and used vehicles. Its online catalog lists used cars with vehicle history and inspection information for buyers in multiple regions.

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