Fal, which runs image, video and audio AI models for developers, raised $1.3B led by Bessemer at a $16B valuation, double its value in April.
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PyTorch 2.15 ships a rewritten NCCL backend that stops a single failing GPU from forcing a full training restart. The new ProcessGroupNCCL allows only one communicator per process group during initialization, which by default eliminates the crosstalk that the old version's many communicators caused. A third-party orchestrator can now exclude a crashed or slow GPU and assign a replacement worker. A new 'flight recorder' captures operation snapshots for debugging stalls. The legacy backend remains as a rollback option but will be removed in 2.16, planned for early next year. The release also totals 3,117 commits from 583 contributors and includes parallel processing improvements for Apple gear and support for Nvidia's next-generation Blackwell GPUs.
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