The PyTorch Foundation, the Linux Foundation-based open source AI organization, today announced that it will become the host of Ray, the popular open source distributed computing framework for scaling AI and Python applications. The Ray project will join existing projects like PyTorch itself, the vLLM inference engine and deep learning optimization library DeepSpeed.
Ray was originally incubated in UC Berkeley’s RISELab. Robert Nishihara and Philipp Moritz, who were graduate students at the time, launched the project in 2016. Together with…








