AWS Trainium Runs PyTorch Natively, PyTorch Con Keynote Revealed
PyTorch · x · 2026-09-16
PyTorch announced keynote speaker Colin Brace, VP of Annapurna Labs at AWS, for PyTorch Conference North America (Oct 20-21, San Jose).
He will present "Trainium's Journey to Native PyTorch": PyTorch now runs natively on AWS Trainium with no code changes. AWS enabled eager mode and torch.compile, integrated Trainium with TorchTitan, TorchAO and Hugging Face Transformers v5, and contributed upstream to the PyTorch ecosystem.
Registration tiers: Standard $799, Late $999, Academic $249; teams of 10+ get a 25% discount.
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