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PyTorch Foundation

Open-source steward

Hosted project of The Linux Foundation

The PyTorch Foundation is a directed fund of The Linux Foundation. It supports the PyTorch framework and other hosted projects, including vLLM, DeepSpeed, Ray, Helion, and Safetensors. It was formed in September 2022, when Meta moved PyTorch to the Linux Foundation.123

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Key facts

Ownership
Foundation-hosted
Legal form
Directed fund of The Linux Foundation2
Headquarters
Not documented
Founded
20223

What is and isn’t public

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Hosts open-source projects. PyTorch itself is published under a BSD-style license in a public repository.15

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Frameworks (3)

  • DeepSpeedSoftwareAvailability: Public
  • PyTorchSoftwareAvailability: Public
  • RaySoftwareAvailability: Public

Runtimes (1)

  • vLLMSoftwareAvailability: Public

Organizational relationships

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Notable documented facts

  • The founding governing board members were AMD, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Meta, Microsoft Azure, and NVIDIA.3
  • A Governing Board oversees the foundation under its charter. Technical governance of the PyTorch project is defined separately by its maintainers and is open to individuals, not companies.14
  • The PyTorch code base is established as PyTorch a Series of LF Projects, LLC, and foundation members must also be Linux Foundation members.2

U.S. eligibility

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Eligible · basis: Documented U.S. control

The PyTorch Foundation is a directed fund of The Linux Foundation, which approves changes to its charter. The Linux Foundation is a U.S. 501(c)(6) nonprofit whose legal postal address is in San Francisco, California. The foundation has no separately documented headquarters.267

Assessed Sep 29, 2026

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Sources

  1. 1.
    PyTorch Foundation (external site: pytorch.org)

    PyTorch Foundation · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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    PyTorch Governance | Mechanics (external site: docs.pytorch.org)

    PyTorch Foundation · Documentation · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  5. 5.
    pytorch/pytorch README (external site: github.com)

    PyTorch (GitHub) · Repository · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  6. 6.
    About the Linux Foundation (external site: linuxfoundation.org)

    Linux Foundation · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  7. 7.
    Privacy Policy | Linux Foundation (external site: linuxfoundation.org)

    Linux Foundation · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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