Dumb question from non-AI engineer.

Is this somehow Google's answer to today's best DeepSeek open-sourcing inferencing engine?

I dont think big companies like Google react to news like that. Very likely this was meant to go out on Tuesday for weeks now. And it just happened to have coincided with another news.

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JacobAsmuth 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah they read the news this morning and whipped up a quick Torch->XLA translation layer and coordinated with four different inference engines (who also all wrote their own blog posts) and shoved this out the door quick to stay on top of the news cycle

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parthdesai 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why be rude on purpose? OP clearly prefaced by saying it was a dumb question

	▲	caaqil 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Welcome to the internet, great to have you here.

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mathisfun123 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

they're releasing this today because the pytorch conf is this week...

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geremiiah 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No, these are two very different objectives.

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Tanjreeve 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They do different things and sit in different parts of the stack (training vs inference). TorchTPU seems more like a play to get more people familiar with Googles TPU chips as they want to sell them to people outside of google.

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beardedetim 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah I'd assume this is to allow us to train on their TPUs with torch instead of needing to rent a GPU

	▲	yipinwong 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		ty. that helps a lot and know where to research next.

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mathisfun123 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

lol no this is a replacement for https://github.com/pytorch/xla