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Google and Meta collaborate on TorchTPU, an open-source native PyTorch backend for Google TPUs that enables out-of-the-box execution, eager mode support, and torch.compile integration with competitive performance, replacing the limitations of PyTorch/XLA.

Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch backend for its TPUs, featuring custom ATen kernels, XLA compilation caching, torch.compile() integration, and distributed training support with examples for models like Llama, Qwen, and ResNet.

An open-source tool called XProf Cubism Reducer reduces TensorBoard trace sizes by over 90% for JAX/XLA, making performance profiling more efficient.

This article explains in detail the core ideas of JAX, including function purity, immutability, explicit state management, and JIT compilation, helping readers shift from object-oriented thinking to functional programming to optimize machine learning performance.