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Intel Updates Its PyTorch Extension With DeepSeek-R1 Support, New Optimizations


Intel today released a new version of the Intel Extension for PyTorch in order to apply optimizations to PyTorch for benefiting Intel's hardware

With the Intel Extension for PyTorch v2.7 release, there is support for new large language models (LLMs) as well as various performance optimizations and other enhancements. The updated Intel extension also supports the recently released Microsoft Phi-4 model -- including Phi-4-mini and Phi-4-multimodal as well. Downloads and more details on this extension for helping speed-up PyTorch on modern Intel processors can be found via GitHub.

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