Ep168: Scaling Agentic Workloads: Why Reliable Infrastructure is Non-Negotiable for Enterprise AI by Anyscale

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Learn how Anyscale's Ray platform enables companies like Instacart to supercharge their model training while Amazon saves heavily by shifting to Ray's multimodal capabilities.

Topics Include:

• Ray originated at UC Berkeley when PhD students spent more time building clusters than ML models
• Anyscale now launches 1 million clusters monthly with contributions from OpenAI, Uber, Google, Coinbase
• Instacart achieved 10-100x increase in model training data using Ray's scaling capabilities
• ML evolved from single-node Pandas/NumPy to distributed Spark, now Ray for multimodal data
• Ray Core transforms simple Python functions into distributed tasks across massive compute clusters
• Higher-level Ray libraries simplify data processing, model training, hyperparameter tuning, and model serving
• Anyscale platform adds production features: auto-restart, logging, observability, and zone-aware scheduling
• Unlike Spark's CPU-only approach, Ray handles both CPUs and GPUs for multimodal workloads
• Ray enables LLM post-training and fine-tuning using reinforcement learning on enterprise data
• Multi-agent systems can scale automatically with Ray Serve handling thousands of requests per second
• Anyscale leverages AWS infrastructure while keeping customer data within their own VPCs
• Ray supports EC2, EKS, and HyperPod with features like fractional GPU usage and auto-scaling

Participants:

• Sharath Cholleti – Member of Technical Staff, Anyscale

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