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Latest news and press releases.
Hopsworks 5.0 - Where AI Agents Go to Work
2026-06-15
Hopsworks 5.0 is now generally available. It is our largest release to date, and it marks the convergence of AI and Analytics in a single platform - the AI Lakehouse.
Releasing Hopsworks 5.0 - Introducing the Coding Data and AI Stack
2026-06-15
Hopsworks Launches Hopsworks 5.0: The Coding Data Stack for AI and ML Systems. Hopsworks 5.0 brings a terminal and coding agent directly inside the platform, letting developers go from raw data to production-ready AI in minutes.
Hopsworks 4.8: Trino Analytics, Apache Superset & Data Sources
2026-03-31
Hopsworks 4.8 introduces native Trino and Apache Superset integration, enabling analytics and dashboarding directly on the platform. The release also adds dlt Hub for data ingestion and a unified Data Sources API for connecting to external systems.
Irish Insights Features Hopsworks CEO Jim Dowling: The Swede Life of Jim Dowling
2026-03-13
The article tells the story of how Jim Dowling moved from Dublin to Sweden in 2005 and later founded Hopsworks in Stockholm. It follows his journey from academic research to entrepreneurship, building one of Europe’s leading AI infrastructure companies and competing with global data and AI platforms. It also highlights how Hopsworks is helping shape the future of sovereign AI.
Hopsworks 4.7: On-Demand Transformations, Feature Sharing & Federated Search
2026-01-31
Hopsworks 4.7 introduces on-demand transformations for online-offline feature parity, cross-project feature sharing, and federated search across deployments. The release also includes major platform upgrades, governance enhancements, and performance improvements.
Hopsworks CEO Jim Dowling Featured in The Irish Times: Building a Platform to Help Companies Handle the Massive Data Demands of AI
2025-11-20
This profile follows Hopsworks CEO Jim Dowling’s journey from his early AI research at Trinity College Dublin to building a modern data platform for AI. It highlights how Hopsworks enables companies to manage the huge data volumes required for today’s AI systems, his transition from academia to entrepreneurship, and his mission to strengthen Europe’s competitiveness in AI infrastructure.
O’Reilly Publishes “Building Machine Learning Systems with a Feature Store: Batch, Real-Time, and LLM Systems”
2025-11-14
We're excited to present the O'Reilly book - your ML blueprint for building production-ready batch systems, designing real-time architectures, and creating LLM-powered agents from development to deployment.
Feature Store Summit 2025: The Recordings are Here! 🎬 🎙️
2025-10-30
This edition brings highlights of the Feature Store Summit, our customer stories and the upcoming O'Reilly book.
Hopsworks Featured in Sifted’s List of the 100 Fastest-Growing Startups in the Nordics & Benelux
2025-09-12
Hopsworks has been recognized by Sifted as one of the 100 fastest-growing startups in the Nordics & Benelux, highlighting its strong growth and impact in the AI infrastructure space. This achievement reflects the dedication of the Hopsworks team and partners in building the AI Lakehouse that powers real-time machine learning at scale.
100M Key Lookups/Sec with REST API and Python
2025-08-28
Discover what’s new in the latest RonDB release, with enhanced features for lightning-fast queries and scalable real-time workloads.
From Real-Time to Agentic AI: A Look at Our Latest Releases
2025-08-11
Discover what's new in Hopsworks platform; including Agentic AI in preview, plus exciting upcoming events and initiatives.
Hopsworks 4.4 External Data Services
2025-07-22
Hopsworks 4.4 introduces support for running key data services outside the Kubernetes cluster using Ansible, offering greater deployment flexibility across cloud and on-prem infrastructure. It also adds a new Python API for managing alerts.
Hopsworks 4.3 GPU Management, Data Contracts and AI Assistant in Private Preview
2025-07-03
Hopsworks 4.3 introduces a new pipeline builder that streamlines the creation of Feature, Training, and Inference pipelines using external data. It enhances GPU workload scheduling with cohort-based strategies. The release includes schema validation for feature groups and improved data contracts.
Hopsworks Featured in Sweden’s AI Coverage by Computer Weekly
2025-06-12
In the article, we are talking about Sweden’s journey on accelerating sovereign AI efforts with major investments and EU support, while Jim Dowling reflects on the evolving AI landscape and stresses the need for greater startup investment in Sweden.
Hopsworks 4.2 Observability
2025-04-16
Hopsworks 4.2 is now generally available. This new release adds support for observability for the Online Feature Store, finishes the series of functional updates related to Transformation Functions and provides an upgrade to the supported java version in the platform along with associated components.
Hopsworks & Supermicro Collaborate to Enable High Performance Sovereign AI
2025-04-07
Hopsworks is excited to collaborate with Supermicro to deliver a next-generation AI infrastructure platform, specifically designed to address the growing focus on sovereign data requirements.
Hopsworks Talk Ranked #6 Among the 100 Most-Watched Python Talks of 2024
2025-03-24
Our Python talk was ranked 6th in Tech Talks Weekly’s list of the 100 most-watched talks of 2024.
The Top 10 Fallacies of MLOPS
2025-03-04
Discover the 10 most common misconceptions about MLOps that can delay your AI projects, and learn how to overcome them!
Show, Don't Tell! Building Data Pipelines with AI
2025-02-19
Learn how to automate LLMs with feature engineering and streamline ML pipelines with Hopsworks in our latest Show, Don't Tell.
Hopsworks CEO Jim Dowling Interviewed on Irish Business Podcast: Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam
2025-02-11
Hopsworks CEO and Co-Founder Jim Dowling was recently interviewed on Newstalk's Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam, where he discussed Sweden's thriving technology ecosystem and Hopsworks' growth trajectory.
Hopsworks 4.1 vLLM & Ray Support
2024-12-03
Hopsworks 4.1 is now generally available. This new release adds support for vLLM server, the python Ray framework for building and scaling distributed applications and improved support for managing the scheduling of Hopsworks jobs running on kubernetes.
Hopsworks 4.0 Breaking Changes
2024-11-26
With the release of Hopsworks 4.0, a number of necessary breaking changes have been put in place to improve the overall experience of using the Hopsworks platform.
Hopsworks 4.0 Kubernetes Release
2024-11-26
Hopsworks 4.0 is now generally available. With this release, Hopsworks can be installed and executed inside a Kubernetes cluster allowing all the different services provided by the Hopsworks platform to be available across an extended range of cloud providers and on-premises in air-gapped environments.
First Successful Matchmaking in Singapore
2024-11-08
16 startups from Sweden, Finland and Singapore were connected with corporates and investors in 61 curated matchmaking meetings.
Migrating Hopsworks to Kubernetes
2024-10-24
Nearly a year ago, the Hopsworks team embarked on a journey to migrate its infrastructure to Kubernetes.
Hopsworks AI Lakehouse
2024-09-26
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.
Compliance with new AI regulation is important – but there are positives for startups to embrace too
2024-09-25
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.
Hopsworks: Data Lakehouse for AI and ML Solutions
2024-09-13
Hopsworks is a Data Lakehouse for artificial intelligence (AI). The AI Lakehouse is designed to meet the requirements of AI and machine learning processes.
Swedish company Hopsworks is developing a Lakehouse for data scientists.
2024-09-13
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.
With the Lakehouse, Hopsworks streamlines data pipelines for AI
2024-09-13
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 3.8 The Notifications Release
2024-09-09
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.
Plucky European lakehouse goes for new funding round to take on Databricks
2024-09-05
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 forms Partnership with OVHcloud to drive Affordable, Sustainable, and Compliant AI Development
2024-08-26
Hopsworks, the leading real-time AI Lakehouse, is thrilled to announce a strategic partnership with OVHcloud, Europe’s leading cloud provider.
Hopsworks wants to make a splash with the industry’s first AI data lakehouse
2024-07-04
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 AI Lakehouse embeds NVIDIA NIM for LLMs, helping customers boost generative AI initiatives
2024-07-01
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.
Releasing Hopsworks 4.0 - Introducing the AI Lakehouse
2024-06-28
The team at Hopsworks is excited to announce our upcoming release, Hopsworks 4.0.
Redefining Feature Stores with Class Leading Performance
2024-06-12
Hopsworks research paper, "The Hopsworks Feature Store for Machine Learning," will be presented at the SIGMOD Industrial Track on June 12th 2024.
High Availability & Robustness: Show, Don't Tell!
2024-05-01
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.
Hopsworks for GenAI: Fine-Tuning LLMs & RAG
2024-04-25
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.
Making Hopsworks a More Modular Platform with Delta Lake Support 🛒
2024-03-28
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 The GenAI Release
2024-03-14
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.
Live Coding: Real-time Features for Real-time Machine Learning Systems 👨💻
2024-02-22
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.
Next-Level Reliability: Multi-Region High Availability comes to Feature Stores
2024-01-26
Read our 2-part article by Antonios Kouzoupis, Software Engineer at Hopsworks, explaining the resilient architecture of Hopsworks feature store.
The Definitive Guide to Feature Stores in 2024
2024-01-17
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 SaaS Launches on GCP Marketplace
2024-01-12
Hopsworks brings Advanced Machine Learning and Data Science Platform to Google Cloud Platform
A Retrospective on Hopsworks' Journey in 2023
2023-12-21
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 Product Release
2023-12-19
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.
EU’s landmark AI Act is Europe’s one chance to grasp the global reins on artificial intelligence. It must take it
2023-12-10
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.
The State of Hopsworks 🌎
2023-12-05
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 Product Release
2023-10-20
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).
AI Sweden lanserar Nordens första testmiljö för MLOps
2023-08-25
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 debuts the first MLOps test environment in the Nordics at AI Sweden
2023-08-25
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.
Hopsworks 3.3 Product Release
2023-07-27
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 partners with OpenSearch
2023-07-05
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.
Irish-led AI firm Hopsworks raises $6.5m for US expansion
2023-07-05
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.
Hopsworks reports record growth and raises $6.5M
2023-06-29
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.
Svensk AI-plattform fyller kassan för att växa i USA
2023-06-29
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.
Svenska AI-bolaget Hopsworks tar in 70 miljoner kronor – ska in i USA
2023-06-29
De vill hjälpa företag att använda AI. Nu fyller de kassan och tar in svensk Silicon Valley-veteran.
Hopsworks partners with Katonic.ai
2023-06-28
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 meets SOC2 Type II standards for data security and privacy
2023-04-25
Hopsworks has successfully completed the AICPA Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type II audit.
Hopsworks receives ISO 27001 Certification for Data Security
2023-04-04
Hopsworks has received an ISO 27001 certification, the globally recognized standard for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and continually improving an information security management system.
Hopsworks 3.1 Product Updates: Feature Store & UI Improvements
2023-02-02
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 - Connecting Python to the Modern Data Stack
2022-07-20
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
Hopsworks 2.5 Product Updates: Collaboration & Scalability
2022-03-04
We go through the new features and developments in Hopsworks 2.5 that will benefit open-source users and customers alike.
Logical Clocks raises €5M to fast forward the development of Hopsworks, the most advanced cloud native Feature Store for AI
2021-07-14
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.
Tech for Good: Artificial Intelligence Applications that will Improve the Environment and Healthcare in the EU
2021-02-10
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, founder of NDB Cluster, joins Logical Clocks as Head of Data
2020-11-25
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.
Hopsworks Feature Store Now Available for Microsoft Azure
2020-11-17
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 new Machine Learning Technique to Detect Fraud and Prevent Money Laundering
2020-09-10
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 Joins European Initiative to Bring Artificial Intelligence to 5G Networks with Hopsworks Feature Store
2020-07-07
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 Launches Hopsworks.ai: The World’s First Artificial Intelligence Cloud Platform with a Feature Store
2020-04-27
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.
Hopsworks: Winner of DatSci European Data Science Technology Innovation 2019
2019-09-06
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 Released!
2019-07-02
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 Released!
2019-02-06
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.
Introducing the Feature Store – the Data Warehouse for Machine Learning
2019-01-21
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 Released!
2019-01-07
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.