IBM said in an IBM Research blog post published October 26, 2026 that software updates delivered across the PyTorch ecosystem in the second half of 2026 have made its Spyre dataflow accelerator a first-class PyTorch backend, delivering on a plan IBM and the PyTorch Foundation outlined in October 2025. IBM describes Spyre as its dataflow AI accelerator, optimized for inference and designed for enterprise teams running AI alongside their applications and data on IBM Z, LinuxONE, and Power…