Hugging Face announced on October 20, 2026 that its main open-source libraries now run natively on TPUs, Google's AI accelerator chips available on Google Cloud. The change rests on TorchTPU, a native PyTorch backend that makes TPU "just another device".
What changed
PyTorch users who wanted TPUs previously had to go through PyTorch/XLA (torch_xla) or learn JAX. The post describes the old route as workable but awkward: lazy tensors meant code d…
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