India, Nov. 14 -- Indian-American AI researcher Soumith Chintala, the co-creator of PyTorch, has left Meta after 11 years. Chintala announced his departure from Meta in an X post last week, saying he did not want to be "doing PyTorch forever".

Chintala had joined Meta as a software engineer in 2014 and rose to become a VP at the Mark Zuckerberg-led tech giant. At the time of his leaving, his LinkedIn profile described him as the "AI fixer" of Meta.

PyTorch, the open-source deep learning framework Chintala co-created, is arguably what he is most famous for.

"Eleven years at Meta. Nearly all my professional life. Making many friends for life. Almost eight years leading PyTorch, taking it from nothing to 90%+ adoption in AI. Walking away ...