Hewlett Packard Enterprise, the company better known as HPE, today announced that it acquired Pachyderm, a startup developing a data science platform for “explainable, repeatable” AI. The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, nor was the purchase price. But HP said that it plans to integrate Pachyderm’s capabilities into a platform that’ll deliver a pipeline for automatically preparing, tracking and managing machine learning processes.
Pachyderm’s software will remain available to current and new customers — for now, at least. HPE says that the transaction isn’t subject to any regulatory approvals and will likely close this month.
Co-founded in 2014 by Joey Zwicker and Joe Doliner, a former Airbnb software engineer, Pachyderm delivers tools for versioning (i.e. creating and managing) “enterprise-scale” machine learning and AI projects. Using Pachyderm’s cloud-based and on-premises products, users could automate some aspects of AI system development through data transformations, data workflows and connectors.
Pachyderm also offered versioning features for machine learning data sets and a “Git-like” structure to facilitate collaboration among data scientists, as well …
