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Safetensors is Joining the PyTorch Foundation

Safetensors, a format for storing model weights, is joining the PyTorch Foundation as a hosted project under the Linux Foundation, with governance moving to the community while Hugging Face maintainers continue leading. No breaking changes for users.

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Today, we're announcing that Safetensors has joined the PyTorch Foundation as a foundation-hosted project under the Linux Foundation, alongside DeepSpeed, Helion, Ray, vLLM, and PyTorch itself.
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Announced: 08 Apr 2026 00:00 UTC
Detected: 03 Aug 2026 21:12 UTC (+117d after)

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