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Safetensors, a secure model serialization format, has joined the PyTorch Foundation as a vendor-neutral community project.
•Safetensors is a simple format with a JSON header and raw tensor data designed to safely store model weights without risking arbitrary code execution from pickle-based formats.
•Originally created by Hugging Face, it has become the default format for model distribution on Hugging Face Hub and widely adopted across the ML community.
•The move to PyTorch Foundation provides vendor-neutral governance under the Linux Foundation while Hugging Face maintainers continue leading the project on the Technical Steering Committee.
•No breaking changes for users; contributor pathways are now formally documented and open to the community through published governance documents.
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Future roadmap includes device-aware GPU loading, Tensor and Pipeline Parallel support, and quantization format support for FP8, GPTQ, and AWQ.
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