Welcome Ray from Anyscale to join the PyTorch foundation family! 🎉
Today we are excited to announce Ray is joining The Linux Foundation, where it will be part of the PyTorch Foundation alongside PyTorch and vLLM . This ensures the project’s long-term neutrality, open governance, and deep alignment with the AI ecosystem. Ray began at UC Berkeley, created by Robert Nishihara, Philipp Moritz, and Ion Stoica to scale their own AI research in reinforcement learning. What started as a research project has become a foundational technology that powers data processing, training, and serving for teams running AI at production scale. By joining the broader Linux Foundation ecosystem, Ray now sits not only at the heart of the open-source AI stack, but also within the scalable AI compute stack that powers real-world production. This connects Ray alongside projects like Kubernetes under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), forming a unified foundation for modern AI infrastructure. As AI evolves from research to production, this alignment matters more than ever. Teams need an open, cohesive stack that reduces complexity and waste. Hosting Ray within the overarching Linux Foundation strengthens this open compute layer: from PyTorch (framework) to vLLM (inference), Ray (distributed compute), and Kubernetes (orchestration). “Ray joining the PyTorch Foundation is a significant milestone for open source AI. With PyTorch, vLLM, and Ray working side by side under one neutral home, developers can have a single source for a unified, community-driven compute stack that can scale from strategy to production, without the friction of proprietary systems. We are enthusiastic about what’s ahead for the foundation and are excited to bring our community a hub of flexible, fast, and open AI infrastructure.” – Joe Spisak, Board Member of the PyTorch Foundation and Director of Product Management, Meta Super Intelligence Labs Check out our announcement blog to learn more about Ray and how you can join the Ray community as a contributor or developer: https://lnkd.in/eRREMG2s Together, we will continue building the compute fabric for AI.