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On October 20, Google put TorchTPU on GitHub, a native PyTorch backend for its TPUs. For anyone already running PyTorch on TPUs, the line to read is in the TorchTPU FAQ : "PyTorch/XLA is deprecated and replaced by TorchTPU, which is now public."

The PyTorch/XLA README now opens with the same message: "This project is deprecated and replaced by TorchTPU." It also says the repository will be archived on November 15, 2026. That gives teams on torch_xla under four weeks before the project goes read-only.

What Google shipped

Google announced TorchTPU at PyTorch Conference 2026 and says it was built together with the PyTorch team at Meta ( Google Cloud blog ).…