Ray, the company's fastest growing open source project in distributed AI, lets developers instantly scale applications from a laptop to the cloud, without the cost or expertise of building complex infrastructure. Founded in 2019 by Ion Stoica, Robert Nishihara and Philipp Moritz, Anyscale is based in San Francisco. The company competes in the AI infrastructure market by providing both open-source tools and commercial managed services for distributed computing.
Cyborg Score Rationale
Anyscale has raised $281M in funding with a current valuation of $1B. The company boasts strong institutional backing, a widely-adopted open-source framework, and enterprise traction, though it remains private and lacks disclosed revenue metrics.
Top Insights
Raised $281M from top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates, and Addition.
Valued at approximately $1B as of May 2026, with 190 employees.
Ray is used by enterprise customers including Amazon, Microsoft, Ant Financial, and Intel.
Latest major funding round was $199M Series C in October 2021.
Named Competitors
Lightning — ML training and deployment framework
Weights & Biases — ML experiment tracking and model registry
Abacus.AI — AI application platform and MLOps
Recent Developments
(May 2026) Valuation estimated at $1B with 190 employees and strong employee satisfaction ratings
(October 2021) Closed $199M Series C funding at $1B valuation
(October 2020) Completed $40M Series B funding round led by NEA
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