Paperspace adds machine learning model development pipeline to GPU service – TechCrunch

Paperspace has always had a firm focus on data science teams building machine models, offering them access to GPUs in the cloud, but the company has had broader ambition beyond providing pure infrastructure, and today it announced a new set of tools to help these teams pass the model off to developers and operations in a smoother way in a multi-cloud or hybrid environment. Co-founder and CEO Dillon Erb says this an attempt to provide a full tool set for data scientists and developers, beyond providing pure GPU power to test and build the models. "Machine learning teams do a lot of GPU work -- and as you know, we've been working with GPUs for a number of years now, and that's one of our specialties. Now what we're doing is taking a kind of agile methodology approach or CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) for machine learning, and using that to solve much larger scale [machine learning] problems," Erb said. As the company describes it, "The new release introduces GradientCI, the industry's first comprehensive CI/CD engine for building, training and deploying deep learning models…" Erb says the goal is to provide a way to take the model built on top of Paperspace and put it to work in the company faster.