HPE Brings Startup Determined AI Into Its HPC Business Group

Making machine learning easier to use is all the rage in enterprise computing as more and more businesses are finding out that adopting and integrating AI is harder to do than they first anticipated.

HPE, like other large technology vendors, has been hearing that message from customers and in response, has acquired Determined AI, a San Francisco-based startup that built an open source machine learning training platform that is designed to make the process faster and simpler.

Determined AI’s platform, which is also cloud neutral, uses the Horovod deep learning distributed framework which works with TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch and Apache MXNet to make distributed deep learning easier to use. The platform is a software stack that can train AI models faster and at any scale, while removing complexity and lowering the costs of machine learning development, according to Determined AI.

A price tag was not announced for the deal, which was unveiled on…

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