Jim Dowling, CEO and co-founder of Hopsworks, explained at the IT Press Tour how his company plans to score with the open source AI lakehouse.
Ensuring your startup is up to date with the latest AI regulations is an essential task, but with the strict rulings comes upsides to be excited about.
IT innovation is also coming from Europe. ICTjournal observed this once again during the latest IT Press Tour, where our editorial team met with several companies from the continent, including the Swedes from Hopsworks, who are developing what they call an AI Lakehouse.
During a recent IT Press Tour in Istanbul, Hopsworks, a Swedish startup founded in 2018, presented its Lakehouse solution, which aims to transform data management by combining artificial intelligence, real-time analytics, and language model (LLM) management, all within an open and modular framework.
Hopsworks is a Data Lakehouse for artificial intelligence (AI). The AI Lakehouse is designed to meet the requirements of AI and machine learning processes.
Hopsworks 3.8 is now generally available. This new release adds a notification service to the Hopsworks platform allowing changes to Feature Groups to result in notifications being sent to relevant subscribers. In addition a number of improvements have been made to transformation functions including model dependent transformations and on-demand transformations. In addition a number of minor improvements were included with this release.
At this week’s IT Press Tour in Istanbul, in front of press and analysts from across Europe, Dowling explained the drive and ethos behind the business, and how his team want to truly compete against the US lakehouse giants.
Hopsworks, the leading real-time AI Lakehouse, is thrilled to announce a strategic partnership with OVHcloud, Europe’s leading cloud provider.
Swedish data lakehouse company Hopsworks AB is pitching what it says is the industry’s “first unified platform for building batch, real-time and large language model” artificial intelligence systems.
Hopsworks is a fully integrated AI Lakehouse with generative AI capabilities that leverages the function-calling capability of NVIDIA NIM inference microservices to add real-time context from structured and unstructured data sources such as data warehouses, data lakes, and documents.
Hopsworks research paper, "The Hopsworks Feature Store for Machine Learning," will be presented at the SIGMOD Industrial Track on June 12th 2024.
With the help of drawings and live code, our Software Engineer Antonios visualizes Hopsworks' architecture explaining the components which makes it highly available as well as putting the architecture to the test.
As GenAI and LLMs are becoming a more integral part of many businesses products and services, Hopsworks aims to support even more LLM/GenAI use cases.
One of our latest updates is added support for Delta Lake which offers better integration with Databricks and Microsoft Fabric. In collaboration with Delta Lake, we're doing a webinar exploring this new capability and it's implications for AI systems.
Hopsworks 3.7 is now generally available. This new release adds additional capabilities to support LLM/GenAI use cases, introduces feature monitoring, integrates support for Delta Lake and provides a new notification service to track changes to specific features.
Join us on March 6th as our VP of Engineering Fabio Buso uses Hopsworks to create sub-second fresh feature pipelines, retrieve low-latency features, for on-demand feature computation and more.
Read our 2-part article by Antonios Kouzoupis, Software Engineer at Hopsworks, explaining the resilient architecture of Hopsworks feature store.
We provide a definitive roadmap to the state of Feature Stores in 2024 and the solutions they provide for ML teams with real-world problems.
Hopsworks brings Advanced Machine Learning and Data Science Platform to Google Cloud Platform
As we bid farewell to another year, it is time to pause, reflect, and celebrate the collective achievements and highlights that have defined Hopsworks’ journey. In case you missed something, let us take you back to the most significant milestones and events that have shaped our 2023.
Hopsworks 3.5 is now generally available. This version brings enhancements to the feature view APIs, improved management of Airflow Dags when utilizing Airflow embedded in Hopsworks, compatibility with newer Databricks runtimes, and various updates to dependencies.
Late on Friday, December 8th, the EU reached agreement on a deal to regulate artificial intelligence. Negotiators from the EU parliament, EU commission, and national governments agreed rules about the use of systems such as ChatGPT and facial recognition.
Over the last few years, the Hopsworks platform has undergone a series of game changing updates. In case you have missed some parts of our journey, we wanted to create a short summary of our vision for the Hopsworks Machine Learning platform built around our highest performance Feature Store.
Hopsworks 3.4 is now generally available. This version adds support for multi-region high availability and integration with external Kafka clusters. With 3.4, we now allow users to customize the operating system libraries in their Python environment. We have also added new support for scheduling Python and Spark jobs (e.g., used to orchestrate machine learning pipelines).
In the upcoming quarter Hopsworks is supporting several prominent AI and Machine Learning conferences as a sponsor during. We are thrilled to be a part of these events and to actively participate as an exhibitor.
In a significant stride towards fostering AI innovation in the Nordics, Hopsworks has partnered with AI Sweden to provide a "testbed" environment to all of AI Sweden Partners. The collaboration aims to foster the adoption of cutting-edge AI technologies among Nordic businesses and institutional actors.
I ett betydande steg mot att främja AI-innovation i Norden har Hopsworks ingått ett partnerskap med AI Sweden för att erbjuda en testbädd till alla AI Swedens partners. Samarbetet syftar till att främja användningen av den senaste AI-tekniken bland nordiska företag och institutionella aktörer.
Hopsworks 3.3 is now generally available. This version includes two new APIs to retrieve data for batch inference (built using DuckDB and ArrowFlight server) and a REST API to retrieve data from the online feature store.
Hopsworks has partnered with OpenSearch, an open-source, vector database for building flexible, scalable, and future-proof AI applications. With this collaboration, OpenSearch is the vector database that powers Hopsworks feature store’s search capabilities for ML assets.
Hopsworks, an artificial intelligence infrastructure firm co-founded by Irishman Jim Dowling, has raised $6.5m (€6m) from financial backers to expand its commercial operations and footprint in the US.
The Feature Store Summit returns for a third year in a row. The third edition of the summit will take place on October 11th and will be joined by several prominent companies in the Feature Store community. The CFP is open and still accepting contributions.
With a tripling of growth in 2022, Hopsworks raised $6.5M in investment and brings in Lars Nordwall, former President and COO at the double unicorn Neo4j, as Executive Chair.
Det svenska bolaget Hopsworks vill hjälpa företag världen över att bygga AI-modeller. Nu tar företaget in 70 miljoner kronor för att anställa personal i USA. ”I dag är vi i princip det enda infrastrukturbolaget för AI i Europa”, säger grundaren Jim Dowling till Di.
De vill hjälpa företag att använda AI. Nu fyller de kassan och tar in svensk Silicon Valley-veteran.
Hopsworks recently entered a partnership with MLOps platform Katonic. Katonic’s platform is used to develop, deploy, monitor, and manage advanced analytics and ML and AI solutions in a self-service, collaborative, governed, and secure manner.
Hopsworks has successfully completed the AICPA Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type II audit.
Hopsworks has received an ISO 27001 certification, the globally recognized standard for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and continually improving an information security management system.
Read about Hopsworks 3.1 and the new improvements in the feature store (time-series splits for training data, support for managing thousands of models), stability and user-interface.
Hopsworks 3.0 is a new release focused on best-in-class Python support, Feature Views unifying Offline and Online read APIs to the Feature Store, Great Expectations support, KServe and a Model serving
We go through the new features and developments in Hopsworks 2.5 that will benefit open-source users and customers alike.
The company that launched Hopsworks, the world’s first open-source Feature Store for AI, raises a €5M Series A investment led by the Nordic VC Industrifonden with the participation of Inventure. Hopsworks has already attracted industry leading organizations including PaddyPower-Betfair, Getinge, and Swedbank.
Logical Clocks announces three new research projects part of the European Union (EU) Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme that will benefit from Hopsworks artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to scale deep learning and enhance research focused on understanding environmental changes and improving healthcare in Europe. Hopsworks is the world’s first and most advanced managed Feature Store with an end-to-end AI platform for the development and operation of AI applications at scale.
Mikael Ronström joins Logical Clocks as Head of Data. Mikael Ronström is the inventor and lead developer of NDB Cluster, an open-source distributed database underlying the MySQL Cluster platform.
Logical Clocks, the data company behind the world’s first Enterprise Feature Store for Machine Learning, today announced full support for Microsoft Azure on its cloud managed data platform, Hopsworks. The announcement complements the existing support for Amazon Web Service (AWS), thus enterprises can now manage features for training and serving models at scale on Hopsworks while maintaining control of their data inside their organisation’s accounts on the most popular cloud platforms.
Logical Clocks introduces a new machine learning technique to train models for fraud detection using deep learning and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). The technique, available on Hopsworks, the world’s first data platform with a Feature Store, helped Swedbank, the oldest and largest bank in Sweden, reduce costs associated with fighting fraud.
Logical Clocks announced it is developing the first enterprise Feature Store for Edge Computing for the AI-NET ANIARA project, part of the CELTIC-NEXT programme, to bring artificial intelligence to 5G networks in Europe. To meet infrastructural requirements on performance, security, reliability and scalability, the project will take advantage of Logical Clocks’ Feature Store.
Logical Clocks, the enterprise behind Hopsworks - the first data platform for designing and operating machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) applications at scale with a Feature Store - announces the launch of Hopsworks.ai, the world’s first managed cloud platform for AI with a feature store.
On September 5th, 2019, Logical Clocks won the European DatSci award for “Data Science Technology Innovation of the Year”. Hopsworks is a data-intensive platform for data science and AI, that includes the first Enterprise Feature Store for Machine Learning.
Hopsworks 0.10 brings the latest features, improvements and bug fixes. It is the biggest release done so far, made up of 191 JIRAs including many new features. Also, this version marks the last of the 0.x series, as Hopsworks is gearing up towards its 1.x series starting with 1.0 end of Q3 2019.
Hopsworks 0.9.0 brings the latest features, improvements and bug fixes. It introduces Apache Airflow as-a-service which means users can now create their own workflows from within their familiar environment of a Hopsworks project. You can get started with Airflow in Hopsworks by visiting the user-guide.
Announcing the release of the first Enterprise Feature Store for Machine Learning. The Feature Store solves the problem of ad-hoc and siloed machine learning pipelines, where features, the training data for such pipelines, tend to become disorganized, disjointed, and duplicated, leading to correctness problems and redundant work.
Hopsworks 0.8.0 brings the latest features, improvements and bug fixes. It comes a short while after version 0.7.0 and brings the world’s first open-source feature store, a revamped REST API for managing jobs in Hopsworks and improvements in visualization for python notebooks.
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