AI Daily · Oct 21, 2026 · Wednesday
Google open-sources TorchTPU, letting PyTorch apps run on TPUs without a rewrite
AI summary
Google has open-sourced TorchTPU, which lets developers move existing PyTorch applications to TPUs and Google Cloud by changing configuration only, with no code rewrite. Hugging Face has also added support for the backend, so Transformers, Diffusers and Kernels can run directly on TPUs.
Model releases
NVIDIA Cosmos3-H-Dreams: Bringing Clinical Surgery to Life Through Generative Simulation
Today, we take the next step and introduce Cosmos3-H-Dreams, bringing interactive generative simulation to the visual and procedural complexity of clinical surgery with our most convincing in-body imagery to date. To our knowledge, this is the first real-time generative surgical simulator trained on clinical cholecystectomy recordings to support live kinematic control.
Product releases
Hugging Face ❤️ TorchTPU: TPUs, Natively
If you ever tried to run PyTorch on a TPU, you probably ported your code to torch_xla, or you ended up having to learn JAX. With TorchTPU, a native PyTorch backend, TPU is now just another device. It opens up native support of TPU in the Hugging Face ecosystem.
Industry
Meta Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations
Meta is suspending the sharing feature while it investigates its privacy.
Google has joined Amazon in attacking Nvidia’s stronghold with AI app developers
Google has joined Amazon in releasing a developer tool that makes it easy for PyTorch users to move their apps off Nvidia GPUs.