Berkeley, Calif. — (Business Wire) — Anyscale, the company behind the open source project Ray, today announced Ray 1.0, the latest version of the Ray open source project — a universal serverless compute API and an expanded ecosystem of libraries.

With Ray 1.0, developers can build scalable libraries and applications without worrying about infrastructure. Without Ray, these applications must be developed in tandem with infrastructure for running the applications, which comes with high development costs and a lack of interoperability.

By providing a general purpose API, Ray broadens the set of applications that can be built and run in a scalable serverless fashion beyond what can be done with today’s more specialized systems.

With the goal of building the most comprehensive library ecosystem for distributed applications, Ray 1.0 expands on existing support for its native libraries including RLlib, Tune, Ray Serve and RaySGD, and now supports libraries such as Hugging Face, spaCy, Horovod, PyTorch, Hyperopt, Optuna, Dask, Modin and Mars. These are some of the most popular Python libraries for training, NLP, hyperparameter tuning, and other workloads.

The Anyscale platform redefines serverless computing by freeing users from managing servers and enabling them to move seamlessly between their laptops and the cloud with no code changes, Anyscale dramatically simplifies the process of developing and productionizing distributed applications. The platform is currently being offered in an invitation-only beta.

“At Intel, we’re using Ray in a number of ways to support our AI applications. Not only do we leverage it through Analytics Zoo with RayOnSpark, we leverage Ray for hyperparameter search, model selection, and AutoML. Ray and its libraries have proven invaluable in meeting the demands of AI workloads for our users,” said Jason Dai, Senior Principal Engineer, Intel.

To sign up for the Anyscale private beta, visit anyscale.com.

Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Anyscale is based in Berkeley, CA.

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