Google and Amazon cut the cost of leaving Nvidia to a one-line change
At PyTorch Conference 2026 Google open-sourced TorchTPU, a native PyTorch backend that targets TPUs via a standard torch.device("tpu") call with no rewrite. A day earlier Amazon released TorchNeuron in public beta, running PyTorch code on AWS Trainium chips unmodified.
- TorchTPU was co-developed with Meta's PyTorch team
- TorchNeuron runs on AWS Trainium without code changes
- Meta's Prometheus cluster uses GB200 NVL72 racks toward ~1M GPUs
- DeepSeek open-sourced DeepInfer and is co-designing chips with Huawei
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