Soumith Chintala is an AI researcher and open-source infrastructure builder who co-founded PyTorch and serves as Chief Technology Officer at Thinking Machines Lab. Soumith Chintala's Twitter Score is 140 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #4,260 (top 1%) among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Soumith Chintala co-founded PyTorch, the widely used open-source machine learning framework, and helped build it from scratch, according to Business Insider. He is also affiliated with the PyTorch Foundation and the Linux Foundation. Previously, Soumith Chintala worked at Meta as an AI lead, where much of the foundational PyTorch work took shape.
Soumith Chintala is currently at Thinking Machines Lab, which raised a seed round of $2 billion at a $12 billion valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Nvidia, Accel, Cisco, and AMD, per Wired. He also works at NYU, where he is involved in robotics research. Soumith Chintala has published 4,059 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 49 accounts a total of 112 times.
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