# Anyscale

> Anyscale is the company behind Ray, the open-source distributed computing framework used to train and serve some of the world's largest AI systems. Founded by the creators of Ray at UC Berkeley's RISELab, Anyscale provides a managed compute platform that lets enterprises scale Python and AI workloads across any cloud, with the performance of bare metal and the ergonomics of a notebook.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Robert Nishihara (Co-founder, former CEO), Philipp Moritz (Co-founder, CTO), Ion Stoica (Co-founder, Executive Chairman), Michael I. Jordan (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** ~430 employees
- **Products:** Ray, Anyscale Platform, Anyscale Runtime (RayTurbo), Anyscale on Azure
- **Notable:** Built Ray, the framework that helped train ChatGPT., Reached $1B valuation by year three., Powering ~1 million Ray clusters per month across the ecosystem.

## Products & services

- **Ray** — Open-source unified framework for scaling AI and Python workloads - training, tuning, serving, and data processing.
- **Anyscale Platform** — Fully managed Ray for enterprises, with cluster orchestration, observability, governance and security on AWS, GCP and Azure.
- **Anyscale Runtime (RayTurbo)** — API-compatible engine for Ray with up to 10x faster data, training and serving performance with no code changes.
- **Anyscale on Azure** — First-party AI-native compute service on Microsoft Azure, announced November 2025.

## Achievements

- Built Ray, the framework that helped train ChatGPT.
- Reached $1B valuation by year three.
- Powering ~1 million Ray clusters per month across the ecosystem.
- Ray joined the PyTorch Foundation in 2025.
- Hosts Ray Summit, the largest annual gathering on distributed AI.

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — Anyscale and Microsoft launched a first-party AI-native compute service on Azure, in private preview.
- **2025-09** — Ray Summit 2025: announced Anyscale Runtime updates, Global Resource Scheduler, multi-resource cloud and Lineage Tracking.
- **2025-08** — Anyscale available via BYOC on CoreWeave Kubernetes Service.
- **2025** — Ray joined the PyTorch Foundation.

## Links

- Website: https://anyscale.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinanyscale
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/anyscalecompute
- GitHub: https://github.com/ray-project/ray
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@anyscale

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