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Hugging Face released TorchTPU, a native PyTorch backend for running Transformers and Diffusers on cloud TPUs, and reported early test-suite results

Open source release Provisional 82% confidence first seen

Hugging Face released TorchTPU, adding native TPU support to PyTorch so users can run Transformer and Diffusers models on TPUs by selecting a TPU device without relying on torch_xla or Optimum TPU. The announcement reported that 96.5% of the Transformers TPU test suite passes, with 34 issues found and 19 fixed so far; separate coverage notes Google open-sourced TorchTPU and that it was co-developed with Meta.

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Hugging Face ❤️ TorchTPU: TPUs, Natively Hugging Face official Google Open-Sources TorchTPU, a Native PyTorch Backend for Cloud TPUs MarkTechPost

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