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Sam Gross

Co-author of the PyTorch paper and author of PEP 703, which makes CPython's GIL optional

Sam Gross is the second author of the 2019 PyTorch paper, listed there with Facebook AI Research, and PyTorch's maintainers page lists Gross as an emeritus maintainer of torch.nn and of the MKLDNN integration. Gross is the author of PEP 703, "Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython," whose status is Final. Gross's GitHub profile lists Thinking Machines as their company.23461

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    colesbury (Sam Gross) on GitHub (external site: github.com)

    GitHub · Official page · 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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    pytorch/pytorch LICENSE (BSD-style license) (external site: github.com)

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

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    PEP 703 – Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython (external site: peps.python.org)

    Python Software Foundation (peps.python.org) · Documentation · published Jan 9, 2023 · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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