When Soumith Chintala co-launched PyTorch, and for many years after, the alternatives for fast, interactive, convenient development were much worse. There was no Jax.
Every single AI researcher I know, including me, who tried PyTorch back then immediately wanted to switch to it, because it was so much better. Andrej Karpathy described what PyTorch felt like back then when he tweeted, on May 2017, "I've been using PyTorch a few months now and I've never felt better. I have more energy. My skin is clearer. My eyesight has improved."[a]
THANK YOU SOUMITH for your hard work over all these years! Your hard work has made a difference for a huge number of people, including many of us here on HN.
We wish you success in your future endeavors, whatever they turn out to be!
Please ignore all the petty criticism.
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