IBM Extends Jupyter Notebooks for AI Development

The Elyra AI Toolkit extends the industry standard JupyterLab user interface with the goal of simplifying development of AI and other data science models. IBM said this week the initial release includes a visual editor for building AI pipelines along with the ability to run interactive notebooks as batch jobs. Other features include Python script execution and a "hybrid runtime" capability based on Jupyter Notebooks' enterprise gateway. The gateway is designed to ease the scaling of enterprise workloads. IBM said Elyra (pronounced, el-EYE-rah) would ease workload development.