Announcing a Weights & Biases Funding Round with Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman
Why we're excited about our newest funding round—and what we're going to do with it
Created on August 9|Last edited on August 9
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I’m excited to announce that Weights & Biases has raised $50 million from Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross!
Shawn, Chris, and I started Weights & Biases because we wanted to build great tools for people working in machine learning. We started with an experiment tracking product and over time built out a whole suite of solutions for what has become the modern MLOps workflow.
We built our products in conversation with our users. Over time, some of those well known ML practitioners who used our product became investors: Greg Brockman, Richard Socher, Pieter Abbeel, Stuart Bowers, and others. Having users invest in the company pushes us to make our products even better.
Nat and Daniel have been in the ML space for a long time and were both early users of Weights & Biases. And they're joining us at an exciting moment for the company. We've provided the tooling for most of the well known LLMs on the market including OpenAI, Nvidia, Meta, Cohere, MosaicML, Huggingface and Stability, along with hundreds of enterprises in virtually every industry.
Those LLMs have already had a profound impact on the ML space and we're finally seeing true democratization of AI. Suddenly it’s possible for any developer to build great ML-powered solutions on top of the GenAI or LLM products out there.
This new workflow needs a new set of tools and we think we can build the best ones. We’re calling our growing set of LLMOps tools “W&B Prompts” and we're planning to use this investment to make Prompts serve our customers and help them build and maintain reliable ML-powered products.
We want to be the company that supports all AI applications whether the workflow involves building, fine-tuning or using a model.
We could not be more excited to work with Nat and Daniel!
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