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New Machine Learning Debugging and Visualization Platform Unveiled

By Becky Nagel
June 1, 2018

Courting enterprise AI developers, a new San Francisco-based company has unveiled a machine learning debugging and visualization platform.

The company, Weights & Biases, says its flagship platform is "the first enterprise AI platform to help teams visualize and debug machine learning models."

Furthermore, the platform targets several other areas of key interest to enterprise AI developers, including: hyperparameter tuning, performance visualization and configuration management.

"We have worked extensively with companies to turn machine learning research projects into scalable, real-world deployments," commented Co-Founder Lukas Biewald in a prepared statement announcing the launch. "We've watched hundreds of teams struggle to deploy machine learning models successfully, and the same problems show up repeatedly.

"Machine learning has created a fundamentally new kind of programming, requiring a fundamentally new set of developer tools," he continued. "We created Weights & Biases to provide that missing toolkit."

The platform works with "all machine learning frameworks," according to the company Web site, but Weights & Biases offers custom integrations for TensorFlow, Keras and PyTorch. The platform is free for unlimited public projects.

Interested devs can sign up to try the software and see sample projects here.

Weights & Biases is founded by former Figure Eight (previously known as CrowdFlower) co-founders and AI aficionados Lukas Biewald and Chris Van Pelt, and former Google Engineering lead and Y Combinator alum Shawn Lewis. According to its launch announcement it received $5 million in a Series A investment round co-led by Trinity Ventures and Bloomberg Beta.

About the Author

Becky Nagel is vice president of AI for 1105 Media, where she specializes in training internal and external customers on maximizing their business potential via a wide variety of generative AI technologies as well as developing cutting-edge AI content and events. She's the author of "ChatGPT Prompt 101 Guide for Business Uses," regularly leads research studies on generative AI business usage, and serves as the director of AI Boardroom, a new resource for C-level executives looking to excel in the AI era. Prior to her current position she was a technical leader for 1105 Media's Web, advertising and production teams as well as editorial director for a suite of enterprise technology publications, including serving as founding editor of PureAI.com. She has 20 years of enterprise technology journalism experience, and regularly speaks and writes about generative AI, AI, edge computing and other cutting-edge technologies. She can be reached at [email protected].