Leaving Meta and PyTorch
**Leaving Meta and PyTorch** It’s finally time… November 6th, 2025 [https://soumith.ch/blog.html](https://soumith.ch/blog.html) Eleven years at Meta. Nearly all my professional life. Making many friends for life. Almost eight years leading PyTorch, taking it from nothing to 90%+ adoption in AI. Walking away from this was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. But I’m leaving with a full heart. PyTorch handles exascale training now. It powers foundation models that are redefining intelligence. It’s in production at virtually every major AI company. It’s taught in classrooms from MIT to rural India. The tools I dreamed about making accessible? They are. The barrier to entry I wanted to lower? It’s almost gone. To be clear, there’s so much more to do. As long as AI evolves at a…
