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Joe Spisak

VP of Product and Head of Open Source at Reflection AI; PyTorch core maintainer

Joe Spisak is Vice President of Product and Head of Open Source at Reflection AI, a PyTorch core maintainer, and a member of the PyTorch Foundation Governing Board, according to PyTorch's May 2026 release Q&A page, which also notes Spisak's earlier work at Meta. "The Llama 3 Herd of Models" (2024) lists Spisak among the Llama 3 core contributors. At PyTorch Conference Europe 2026, Spisak gave the keynote "Community Led Open Source RL."1453

Work

  • PyTorchOpen-source code

    Listed as one of PyTorch's core maintainers on the project's maintainers page. The repository is under a BSD-style license.47

    Project page (external site: github.com)

  • Llama 3Open weights

    Listed among the core contributors in "The Llama 3 Herd of Models" (2024), defined there as people who worked on Llama 3 for at least two-thirds of the project's runtime; the paper's abstract states that Meta publicly released Llama 3, including the 405B-parameter model.56

    Project page (external site: arxiv.org)

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.

  • Previously worked at Meta; listed as a Llama 3 core contributor, Meta15

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Sources · reviewed Oct 13, 2026

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    PyTorch Conference Europe 2026: A Landmark Moment for Open Source AI in Paris (external site: pytorch.org)

    PyTorch · Announcement · published Apr 15, 2026 · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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    PyTorch Governance | Maintainers (PyTorch 2.14 documentation) (external site: docs.pytorch.org)

    PyTorch · Documentation · published Jun 5, 2026 · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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    The Llama 3 Herd of Models (arXiv 2407.21783) (external site: arxiv.org)

    arXiv · Paper · published Jul 31, 2024 · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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    The Llama 3 Herd of Models, paper PDF (contributors appendix) (external site: arxiv.org)

    arXiv · Paper · published Jul 31, 2024 · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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    pytorch/pytorch LICENSE (BSD-style license) (external site: github.com)

    PyTorch (GitHub repository) · License · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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