Paperspace Launches Gradient -- A Serverless Artificial Intelligence Platform

Paperspace, a Brooklyn-based startup has launched an AI PaaS offering called Gradient. Based on the serverless delivery model, Gradient removes the friction involved in launching and configuring GPU-backed VMs to train machine learning and deep learning models. Data scientists and developers spend a lot of time configuring the right environment needed for creating machine learning experiments and models. Firstly, they need to launch a Linux virtual machine powered by a GPU. This step is followed by installing required NVIDIA tools such as graphic drivers, CUDA runtime, and cuDNN libraries.