We're expanding ZenML beyond its original MLOps focus into the LLMOps space, recognizing the same fragmentation patterns that once plagued traditional machine learning operations. We're developing three core capabilities: native LLM components that provide unified APIs and management across providers like OpenAI and Anthropic, along with standardized prompt versioning and evaluation tools; applying established MLOps principles to agent development to bring systematic versioning, evaluation, and observability to what's currently a "build it and pray" approach; and enhancing orchestration to support both LLM framework integration and direct LLM calls within workflows. Central to our philosophy is the principle of starting simple before going autonomous, emphasizing controlled workflows over fully autonomous agents for enterprise production environments, and we're actively seeking community input through a survey to guide our development priorities, recognizing that today's infrastructure decisions will determine which organizations can successfully scale AI deployment versus remaining stuck in pilot phases.
Future-proof your ML operations by building portable pipelines that work across multiple platforms instead of forcing standardization on a single solution.
ZenML secures an additional $3.7M in funding led by Point Nine, bringing its total Seed Round to $6.4M, to further its mission of simplifying MLOps. The startup is set to launch ZenML Cloud, a managed service with advanced features, while continuing to expand its open-source framework.
As our AI/ML projects evolve and mature, our processes and tooling also need to keep up with the growing demand for automation, quality and performance. But how can we possibly reconcile our need for flexibility with the overwhelming complexity of a continuously evolving ecosystem of tools and technologies? MLOps frameworks promise to deliver the ideal balance between flexibility, usability and maintainability, but not all MLOps frameworks are created equal. In this post, I take a critical look at what makes an MLOps framework worth using and what you should expect from one.
The MLOps movement and associated new tooling is starting to help tackle the very real technical debt problems associated with machine learning in production.
This week I spoke with Matt Squire, the CTO and co-founder of Fuzzy Labs, where they help partner organizations think through how best to productionise their machine learning workflows.
This week I spoke with Kush Varshney, author of 'Trustworthy Machine Learning', a fantastic guide and overview of all of the different ways machine learning can go wrong and an optimistic take on how to think about addressing those issues.
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