Safetensors is Joining the PyTorch Foundation

Safetensors is joining the PyTorch Foundation as a foundation-hosted project under the Linux Foundation, making its governance vendor-neutral. The format was originally created by Hugging Face as a secure and efficient way to store and share model weights, preventing the arbitrary code execution possible with pickle-based formats. For users, the format and APIs will remain the same with no breaking changes, but the project's governance is now formally open to the community. The future roadmap includes potential integration into PyTorch core, device-aware loading directly onto accelerators, and support for advanced quantization formats.