Ludwig AI
Predibase aims to simplify machine learning and AI adoption by shifting to a declarative ML paradigm, allowing users to specify goals while the platform manages implementation.
Founding Story
Started at Uber with the Ludwig project to democratize deep learning. The founders left Uber to start Predibase to bring the declarative ML approach to the enterprise.
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Leadership
Founders
Piero Molino
Creator of Ludwig at Uber AI; Co-founder and Chief Science Officer at Predibase; Research Scientist at Uber AI.
Devvret Rishi
Product Manager at Google (Firebase and Google AI); Kaggle; Co-founder and CEO at Predibase.
Travis Addair
Software Engineer at Uber AI; Main maintainer of Horovod; Co-founder and CTO at Predibase.
Chris Ré
Associate Professor at Stanford University; MacArthur Fellow; Co-founder of Predibase and Lattice Data (acquired by Apple).
Executive Team
Devvret Rishi
CEO (now GM of AI at Rubrik)
Former PM at Google AI and Firebase.
Piero Molino
Chief Science Officer
Creator of Ludwig, former Uber AI.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Subscription and usage-based pricing for model training, fine-tuning, and inference hosting.
Pricing Tiers
Ideal for individual developers exploring fine-tuning and basic inference.
For developers building production applications with advanced fine-tuning and higher limits.
Full-scale enterprise deployment with dedicated support, VPC options, and advanced security.
Target Markets
- Enterprise AI Teams
- Software Engineers
- Data Scientists
- LLM fine-tuning and serving
- Text classification and sentiment analysis
- Tabular data prediction (fraud detection, etc.)
- Multimodal classification
- Fortune 500 companies
- Innovative AI startups
History & Milestones
Predibase is acquired by Rubrik for a reported amount exceeding $100 million.
Predibase raises a $12.2M Series A round led by Felicis.
Predibase exits stealth with a $16.3M Seed round led by Greylock.
Predibase is founded by the creators of Ludwig and Horovod.
Ludwig joins the LF AI & Data Foundation as an incubation project.
1 AI Tool by Ludwig AI
Ludwig is a low-code, declarative deep learning framework for building custom AI models including LLMs and neural networks using YAML configuration files.
