By Mike Wheatley
Publication Date: 2026-10-21 01:29:00
Google LLC is striving to pry open Nvidia Corp.’s grip on the artificial intelligence computing industry with the launch of a specialized version of the open-source PyTorch framework, called TorchTPU, which is designed to eliminate a key advantage of its rival.
One of the reasons why Nvidia and its graphics processing units remain so dominant in the AI industry is that the vast majority of AI applications are written specifically to run on its GPUs, and it’s this reality that Google is trying to change with today’s release.
The PyTorch framework is a popular open-source toolkit that developers use to create, train and run AI models and neural networks. According to some accounts, more than 85% of all AI applications are created using PyTorch, which was created by Meta Platforms Inc. in 2016, long before anyone realized that large language models would come along to enable the AI boom.
Back then, Nvidia’s GPUs were already the preferred hardware used by developers for AI…
