Why PyTorch Won – The New Stack

During this week’s PyTorch Conference 2025 in San Francisco, I sat down with Luca Antiga, the head of the Technical Advisory Council for the PyTorch Foundation and the CTO of end-to-end AI platform Lightning AI. Antiga was part of the team that wrote the original PyTorch paper and co-authored the “Deep Learning with PyTorch” book. Who better to talk to about the state of PyTorch itself and get an update on the PyTorch Foundation?

Antiga, whose academic background is actually in…