When was PyTorch founded, and who were its original authors?

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1. PyTorch was founded in October 2016 as an internship project by Adam Paszke, who was working under Soumith Chintala, a core developer of Torch, an open-source machine learning library [1] [6].

2. The original authors of PyTorch were Adam Paszke, Soumith Chintala, Sam Gross, and Gregory Chanan [3].

3. PyTorch 2.0 was released on March 15, 2023, and a newly created independent organization, the PyTorch Foundation, became its governing body, operating as a subsidiary of the Linux Foundation [2].

References:

- [1] PyTorch Governance and History - Alex Moltzau

- [2] PyTorch - Wikipedia

- [3] PyTorch - Golden

- [6] What is PyTorch?