Determined AI
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Determined AI was a San Francisco startup founded in 2017 by Neil Conway, Evan Sparks and Ameet Talwalkar (a Carnegie Mellon machine learning professor), with contributions from PhD students and faculty at UC Berkeley and CMU. It built an open-source deep learning training platform that made building models fast and easy: high-performance distributed training, hyperparameter tuning, GPU scheduling and model management in one integrated environment, so engineers could focus on models instead of infrastructure. It launched the open-source platform in 2020 and was acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise in June 2021, joining HPE's High Performance Computing and Mission Critical Solutions group with the platform kept open source.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Company founded
Neil Conway, Evan Sparks and Ameet Talwalkar found Determined AI in San Francisco to build open-source ML training infrastructure.
- Product launch
Determined AI launches its open-source deep learning training platform.
- Acquisition
In June 2021, Hewlett Packard Enterprise acquires Determined AI; the team joins HPE's HPC and Mission Critical Solutions group and the platform remains open source.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
- 01
2017: founded by Conway, Sparks and Talwalkar (CMU/Berkeley roots)
- 02
Open-source deep learning training platform; 2020 launch
- 03
HPE acquires in June 2021; joins HPC & Mission Critical group
- 04
Platform stays open source under HPE