Soumith Chintala
soumithchintala.bsky.social
Soumith Chintala
@soumithchintala.bsky.social
Cofounded and lead PyTorch at Meta. Also dabble in robotics at NYU.

AI is delicious when it is accessible and open-source.

http://soumith.ch
A few months ago we quietly open-sourced a PyTorch video decoding library called torchcodec -- small, nimble, fast, supports GPU decoding via ffmpeg.

The Hugging Face folks had some nice things to say about it as they integrated it into LeRobot.

Check it out here: github.com/pytorch/torc...
March 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
the Aria 2 glasses are pretty great for robot data collection.
they're also getting really good for general agentic use...
Read the full announcement here: www.meta.com/blog/project...
February 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM