In the past year, the open source project Ray, which was created by the cofounders of $95.6 million startup Anyscale to run powerful AI applications on distributed computers, has grown substantially in contributions, its community, and popularity.Burger King uses Ray and Intel's open source project Analytics Zoo to power recommendations in its app.
Anyscale's cofounders are known as the founders of Ray, an open source software project that makes it easier for developers to build applications that are distributed across multiple computers — useful for machine learning tasks that require more memory and overall processing power than any single processor can handle.
It was a natural fit, in some ways: Intel already has an active collaboration with UC Berkeley's RISELab, home to the Ray development team. In fact, Intel used Apache Spark, an open source data analytics tool borne of UC Berkeley's AMPLab, to build much of Analytics Zoo. And so, Intel approached both labs to figure out how to bring Analytics Zoo and Ray together.
The Intel/Anyscale partnership comes as Ray itself sees a boom in popularity. Ray has doubled in users over the last year, Stoica says, and it now has 13,000 stars, or likes, on code repository GitHub, establishing itself as both popular and well-loved in the open source community.in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. In September, Anyscale released a major new version of Ray, stoking the enthusiasm around the software.
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