Determined AI

What Determined AI does

Determined AI is a privately held machine learning technology company founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, with 11-50 employees. The company develops software infrastructure that improves the training and deployment of deep learning models, targeting the operational pain points ML engineers and data scientists face around distributed training, resource utilization, hyperparameter management, and reproducibility. Its product is positioned as deep ML tooling rather than a horizontal AI application or a foundation model — the company's value proposition is rooted in making deep learning workloads faster, more efficient, and more manageable at the systems layer.

The company is led by co-founders Evan Sparks (CEO), Ameet Talwalkar (Chief Scientist), and Neil Conway (CTO), with a Director of Product Management (Vishnu Mohan) indicating a transition toward more structured commercial productization. Determined AI has raised approximately $13.6M in disclosed venture funding across two rounds — a 2017 seed/Series A of $2.6M led by Amplify Partners and The House Fund, followed by a March 2019 Series B of $11M led by Google Ventures with participation from CRV, Amplify Partners, Haystack, LG Electronics, SV Angel, and other investors.

The company's go-to-market model is not explicitly detailed in the available data, and no customer logos, pricing tiers, revenue figures, or distribution channels are disclosed. Given its stage and funding history, Determined AI appears to operate as an early-stage infrastructure software vendor serving ML engineering teams, with the product organization buildout consistent with a transition from research-led development toward commercial deployment. The broader competitive and ecosystem context in which the company operates is not fully captured in the input.

Name

Determined AI

Legal name

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

Website

https://determined.ai

Company type

Public

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Determined AI is a San Francisco-based privately held machine learning infrastructure software company (founded 2017, 11-50 employees) that builds tooling to streamline training and deployment of deep learning models for ML engineers and data scientists.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Deep Learning Platform

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

AI/ML Engineering & Model Development Services (BPAEAHAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

AI Application Enablement Platforms (Copilot/Agent Frameworks, SDKs) (HDAEANAJ), Audit, Explainability & Accountability Tooling (traceability, reporting) (HDAAAKAL)

Keywords

• Deep learning platform
• Model training infrastructure
• Machine learning software
• Neural network training
• Hyperparameter tuning

Headquarters

HQ city

Houston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Hardware Sales (Compute, Storage, Networking): Enterprise hardware including ProLiant Compute servers, HPE Alletra Storage systems, HPE Aruba/Juniper Networking, and HPE Cray Supercomputing products sold as perpetual licenses or as part of integrated solutions.
2. GreenLake as-a-Service / Managed Services: Recurring revenue from GreenLake cloud platform providing pay-per-use access to infrastructure, software, and AI capabilities. Customers pay based on consumption with flexible billing.
3. Professional and Advisory Services: AI consulting services, advisory and professional services, managed services, and education/training services supporting enterprise AI transformation and infrastructure deployment.
4. Software Licensing: Software products including HPE Morpheus Software, Aruba Networking Central, Apstra Data Center Director, and GreenLake intelligence capabilities licensed to enterprise customers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Determined AI is a machine learning technology company that builds software for training and deploying deep learning models. The company focuses on simplifying the infrastructure and workflows required to train deep neural networks at scale, providing data science and ML engineering teams with tools for distributed training, hyperparameter optimization, and resource management. Its offering targets organizations seeking to accelerate deep model development without building bespoke training infrastructure.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• GreenLake: Cloud experience platform delivering unified platform experience for enterprises to simplify IT, reduce costs and transform faster
• HPE Aruba Networking
• HPE Cray
• HPE ProLiant
• HPE Alletra
• Marvis AI
• Mist AI

Products and services

• Determined AI Deep Learning Platform Software platform for training and deploying deep learning models, providing data science and ML engineering teams with capabilities for distributed training, hyperparameter tuning, experiment tracking, and resource orchestration of deep neural network workloads.

Quantifiable outcome

• HPE has operationalized AI across 700+ enterprise AI initiatives internally

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature8 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• NVIDIAcoreTechnology or IntegrationStrategic co-development partnership delivering NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE — jointly developed AI solutions combining HPE infrastructure with NVIDIA AI computing technology. The partnership produces integrated AI factory solutions, NVIDIA GPU-accelerated systems, and enterprise AI platforms optimized for performance and scale.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Google Vertex AI: Google Vertex AI is Google Cloud's unified ML platform offering training, tuning, and MLOps tooling. It is a broad incumbent alternative to Determined AI, particularly strong with AutoML and foundation model training.
• DataRobot: DataRobot provides an enterprise AI platform spanning AutoML, model deployment, and governance. It targets the same regulated enterprise buyers as Determined AI, with broader but less developer-centric tooling.
• Azure Machine Learning: Azure Machine Learning is Microsoft's enterprise ML platform providing training, MLOps, and responsible AI tooling. It competes with Determined AI for enterprise ML training workloads and is tightly integrated with the broader Azure ecosystem.
• Amazon SageMaker: Amazon SageMaker is AWS's fully managed ML platform covering training, tuning, and deployment. It is a broad incumbent that bundles hyperparameter tuning and distributed training, competing with Determined AI for enterprise training workloads.

Emerging players

• Kubeflow: Kubeflow is an open-source Kubernetes-native ML toolkit that handles training pipelines, hyperparameter tuning, and serving. It is an emerging open-source competitor that Determined AI must differentiate against on enterprise-grade polish.
• Anyscale (Ray): Anyscale commercializes the Ray distributed computing framework for scalable AI and Python workloads. It competes with Determined AI on distributed training infrastructure, particularly for foundation model and reinforcement learning workloads.

Direct peers

• Neptune.ai: Neptune.ai offers an MLOps metadata store for experiment tracking, model registry, and collaboration. It directly competes with Determined AI on ML training workflow tooling for enterprise data science teams.
• Domino Data Lab: Domino Data Lab delivers an enterprise MLOps platform with centralized compute orchestration, model training, and governance. It targets the same enterprise buyers as Determined AI and competes for production-scale training workloads.
• Weights & Biases: Weights & Biases provides experiment tracking, hyperparameter tuning, and model management for ML teams. It is the closest direct competitor to Determined AI's open-core ML training platform, serving the same developer persona with overlapping capabilities.
• MLflow (Databricks): MLflow is the leading open-source ML lifecycle platform, now stewarded by Databricks. It overlaps heavily with Determined AI on experiment tracking, model packaging, and reproducibility, and is a primary free alternative.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/hewlett-packard-enterprise
• Xx.com/DeterminedAI

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors12 records

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M&A

Investments

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