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by rfoo 483 days ago
The wheel of CPU-only PyTorch 2.6.0 for Python 3.12 is ~170MiB in size.

It is indeed pretty silly that's not the default and you have to go to https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/, copy the argument `--index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu` to install CPU-only torch. But the alternative would be having the worlds scientists wondering why they can't use their GPUs after `pip install torch` so /shrug