What’s the News? AMD and Intel today announced a collaboration to combine their x86 CPU optimization work for PyTorch in oneDNN, an open-source deep learning library governed by the Unified Acceleration Foundation (UXL) that helps AI workloads run efficiently on CPUs. This move, recommended by the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group, aims to give developers a common software path for optimized AI workloads across AMD and Intel CPUs, reducing fragmentation in the AI ecosystem. AMD and Intel have aligned on oneDNN as the default open-source library for x86 acceleration within PyTorch. AMD is integrating its ZenDNN optimizations into oneDNN and has joined the UXL Foundation as a steering member to further advance this work through open collaboration.