Anyscale Names Industry Veteran Keerti Melkote Chief Executive Officer
2024年8月1日 - 2:41AM
Anyscale, the company behind Ray, the open source
framework for scalable AI, named industry veteran Keerti Melkote as
chief executive officer following a year of 4x revenue growth and
explosive open source adoption.
Melkote brings extensive experience in leading and scaling
global technology organizations. After founding Aruba Networks in
his garage in 2001, Melkote led the company through nearly two
decades of growth, including its IPO in 2007, multi-billion dollar
acquisition by HPE in 2015. Melkote continued to lead Aruba at HPE
and also led HPE’s Intelligent Edge business helping transform it
into a high-growth multi-billion dollar business.
“AI represents a generational opportunity for enterprises to
create value and differentiate themselves. However, AI workloads
are very compute intensive and Anyscale’s founders created Ray as
the software layer to easily scale AI workloads. Thanks to their
vision, Ray now powers AI workloads such as training, inference,
and data processing at companies ranging from Uber to Canva to
Coinbase. I am excited to join Robert, Philipp, and Ion along with
the incredibly talented team at Anyscale to capitalize on the head
start Ray has in this emerging category of AI infrastructure.” -
Keerti Melkote
“Anyscale has already assembled one of the premier teams in the
critically important and rapidly growing AI Infrastructure market.
By adding Keerti, the brilliant and successful former founder and
CEO of Aruba Networks, Anyscale has the opportunity to become a
truly special company.” - Ben Horowitz, Anyscale board
member, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz
“We believe Anyscale is one of a few companies positioned to win
in this rapidly evolving space. Very few entrepreneurs have founded
a company and scaled it through every stage the way Keerti has.
Keerti is the ideal leader to take Anyscale through its current and
future stages of growth and ascension.” - Pete Sonsini,
Anyscale board member, NEA
The amount of compute power needed to run AI workloads like
model training, data processing, and model inference is growing
astronomically. However, there are many hard software engineering
challenges that need to be solved when running AI workloads in the
cloud or across large GPU clusters, challenges spanning
scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency. Today,
the leading AI companies like Google and Meta employ massive AI
infrastructure teams to solve these challenges in-house. These
challenges need to be solved for the industry as a whole, and
that’s what Anyscale is solving.
Ray, the open source framework for scalable AI, was created by
Ion Stoica, prior CEO Robert Nishihara, and Philipp Moritz out of
UC Berkeley’s RISELab to solve the hard scaling challenges around
AI. Today, Ray is growing 6x year over year, is used by over 50,000
developers, and is emerging as the open source standard for scaling
AI. The trio founded Anyscale to commercialize Ray and to enable
every business to move quickly to bring AI to production.
Examples of Ray successes include:
- Pinterest runs 5000 training jobs and 300 batch inference jobs
every month on Ray.
- Runway used Ray to help build Gen-3 Alpha.
- OpenAI used Ray to train GPT-4.
- Uber standardized model training on Ray.
- Amazon processes exabytes of data with Ray.
- Ant Group serves over one million requests per second with
Ray.
- Similar stories abound at Canva, ByteDance, Instacart, Spotify,
Niantic, Samsara, Netflix, Airbnb, Shopify, Zoox, Snorkel,
LinkedIn, Handshake, and many many more.
“As AI workloads make their way from exploration to production,
the need for scale and the associated challenges are exploding.
Keerti is a powerhouse and is the right leader to bring Anyscale
into every enterprise and business that hopes to deploy AI. I’m
overjoyed to be working with him and look forward to partnering in
the years to come.” - Robert Nishihara. Nishihara
will spearhead customer interactions and help shape product roadmap
and strategy in his new role.
“The adoption of AI over the next few years will be unlike any
technology shift we’ve seen so far. We are thrilled to have Keerti
lead Anyscale. His deep background in technology and enterprise
software are perfectly suited for navigating the unprecedented pace
of innovation and change that we are experiencing.” - Ion
Stoica, cofounder and executive chairman of Anyscale. In
addition to cofounding Anyscale, Stoica is a UC Berkeley professor
and was a co-founder and the first CEO at Databricks.
Anyscale will host its third annual in-person Ray Summit in San
Francisco on October 1-2. Ray Summit is the industry conference on
scalable AI. Speakers include:
- Mira Murati - CTO, OpenAI
- Anastasis Germanidis - Co-founder & CTO, Runway
- Marc Andreessen - Co-founder & General Partner, Andreessen
Horowitz
- Joe Spisak - Head of Generative AI Open Source, Meta
- Harrison Chase - Co-founder & CEO, LangChain
- Jerry Liu - Co-founder & CEO, LlamaIndex
- John Bicket - Co-founder & CTO, Samsara
- Stephen MacKinnon - VP Applied Machine Learning, Recursion
About AnyscaleAnyscale is the compute platform
for any AI workload. With Anyscale, developers can develop and run
AI workloads with unmatched scale, performance, and efficiency.
Built by the creators of Ray, thousands of companies rely on
technology from Anyscale for scalability and performance and to
accelerate the delivery of AI products to market. Backed by
Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, Addition, Intel Capital, and Foundation
Capital, Anyscale is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
www.anyscale.com
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