Seldon Technologies Limited (commonly referred to as Seldon) is a British technology company founded in 2014, and headquartered in London, England. It makes
MLOps
MLOps or ML Ops is a set of practices that aims to deploy and maintain machine learning models in production reliably and efficiently. The word is a compound of "machine learning" and the continuous development practice of DevOps in the software fi ...
software for enterprise deployment of
machine learning models, and is a primary maintainer and contributor to a number of popular
open source
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...
repositories such as Seldon Core.
History
Seldon was founded in 2014, and joined the
Barclays
Barclays () is a British multinational universal bank, headquartered in London, England. Barclays operates as two divisions, Barclays UK and Barclays International, supported by a service company, Barclays Execution Services.
Barclays traces ...
Techstars Incubator in 2015 to develop tooling for
AI, and as of 2020 has deployed more than 1 million machine learning models.
Seldon is a guest advisor to the UK's All-Party Parliamentary Group for Artificial Intelligence.
The primary focus of the company is building cloud agnostic Machine Learning (ML) deployment tooling; and has worked in partnership
Google,
Red Hat
Red Hat, Inc. is an American software company that provides open source software products to enterprises. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, with other offices worldwide.
Red Hat has become ass ...
,
IBM and
Amazon Web Services.
In 2019 they raised a €3 million
seed funding round led by
Amadeus Capital Partners, along with Global Brain Corporation, Techstars, and other existing investors.
Raised a £7.1M Series A co-led by AlbionVC and Cambridge Innovation Capital in November 2020.
Products
* Core is a popular open-source MLOps framework used to package, deploy, monitor and manage production machine learning models.
* KFServing, an alternative MLOPs framework created as part of the
Kubeflow
Kubeflow is an open-source platform for machine learning and MLOps on Kubernetes introduced by Google. The different stages in a typical machine learning lifecycle are represented with different software components in Kubeflow, including model ...
project by Google, Seldon, IBM,
Bloomberg and
Microsoft.
* Alibi is an open-source
Python library for machine learning model explainability, in 2020, Alibi earned Seldon a CogX Best Innovation in Explainable AI award.
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*Deploy, a closed-source software suite to productionise the deployment of machine learning models.
References
External links
Seldon Core RepositorySeldon Alibi Repository
British companies established in 2014
Companies based in London