Everyone can use deep learning now

A year ago, a few of us started working on Cortex, an open source platform for building machine learning APIs. At the outset, we assumed all of our users--and all of the companies actually applying ML in production, for that matter--would be large companies with mature data science teams. Over the last year, we've seen students, solo engineers, and small teams ship models to production. A team of two, for example, recently spun up a 500 GPU inference cluster to support their application's 10,000 concurrent users. Not long ago, this kind of thing only happened at companies with large budgets and lots of data.