Bodo.ai 获 1400 万美元融资，Python 登顶 IEEE 2021

{"type":"doc","content":[{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"color","attrs":{"color":"#494949","name":"user"}}],"text":"8 月 25 日，Bodo.ai 宣布完成由戴尔科技资本领投的 1400 万美元 A 轮融资。同时参与此轮融资的还有 Uncorrelated Ventures、Fusion Fund和Candou Ventures。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"color","attrs":{"color":"#494949","name":"user"}}],"text":" "}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"color","attrs":{"color":"#494949","name":"user"}}],"text":"Bodo.ai 成立于 2019 年，总部位于旧金山，由 Behzad Nasre（CEO） 和 Ehsan Totoni（CTO）创立，旨在彻底改变复杂的数据分析和机器学习应用程序，目标是使 Python 成为一流的高性能和生产就绪平台。Nasre 在创办 Bodo 之前曾在英特尔工作了很长时间，他认识了 Totoni 并了解到他正致力于做一个使机器学习全民化并让每个人都能进行并行学习的项目。Nasre 提到，并行计算是延长摩尔定律提高计算性能的唯一途径。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"color","attrs":{"color":"#494949","name":"user"}}],"text":" "}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"align":null,"level":3},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"新的编译器技术，旨在让 Python 更好地处理大规模数据"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"color","attrs":{"color":"#494949","name":"user"}}],"text":" "}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"color","attrs":{"color":"#494949","name":"user"}}],"text":"Bodo 目前正在开发一种新的编译器技术，希望通过创新的编译器技术来实现这一目标。Python 是人工智能和机器学习开发人员和数据科学家使用的主流编程语言之一，但在处理大规模数据时仍具有挑战性。该编译器技术使客户能够利用原生 Python 的简单和灵活性，以极高的性能和低成本无法实现的类似超级计算的性能和线性并行可扩展性。通过消除使用新库、API 或将 Python 重写为 Scala、C++、Java 等其他编程语言或 GPU 图形处理单元代码来实现可扩展性的需要。这个技术也可以实时制作数据分析工具，并用于金融、电信、零售和制造业等行业。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"color","attrs":{"color":"#494949","name":"user"}}],"text":" "}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"color","attrs":{"color":"#494949","name":"user"}}],"text":"Bodo.ai 联合创始人兼首席执行官 Behzad Nasre 表示：“大数据越来越大，在当今数据驱动的经济中，企业客户需要速度和规模来满足他们的数据分析需求。用于大规模数据处理的现有解决方法，如额外的库和框架，无法解决潜在的规模和性能问题。Bodo 不仅解决了这个问题，而且采用了一种无需重写原始应用程序代码的方法。”"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"color","attrs":{"color":"#494949","name":"user"}}],"text":" "}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"color","attrs":{"color":"#494949","name":"user"}}],"text":"“客户知道并行计算是满足人工智能和机器学习计算需求并扩展摩尔定律的唯一途径。但只有大型科技公司和政府实验室的精选专家才能使用这种高性能计算，” Bodo.ai 的联合创始人兼首席技术官 Ehsan Totoni 补充道。“我们的推理编译器技术使以前由性能专家完成的并行化自动化，为所有开发人员和企业提供了大众化的计算能力。这将对大规模的人工智能、机器学习和分析社区产生深远的影响。”"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"color","attrs":{"color":"#494949","name":"user"}}],"text":" "}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"color","attrs":{"color":"#494949","name":"user"}}],"text":"Totoni 还提到“为了让人工智能革命发生，开发人员必须能够用简单的 Python 写代码，这种高性能的能力将打开新的大门。”"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"color","attrs":{"color":"#494949","name":"user"}}],"text":" "}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"color","attrs":{"color":"#494949","name":"user"}}],"text":"Nasre 说，公司是在其产品已经成熟，并且对客户有很好的吸引力的前提下去追求 A 轮资金的， Nasre 认为戴尔技术资本“在储备和他们在整个企业中发挥的作用方面具有独特的优势，在企业中拥有最有效的销售队伍”，这对我们很有帮助。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"color","attrs":{"color":"#494949","name":"user"}}],"text":" "}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"color","attrs":{"color":"#494949","name":"user"}}],"text":"参与领投的戴尔科技公司的总经理 Daniel Docter 表示，“我们看到企业使用更多的机器学习和数据分析来推动业务洞察力和增长。几乎一直需要近乎实时的更多更好的洞察力。但数据和分析的爆炸式增长伴随着巨大的隐性成本--大量的基础设施支出、代码重写、复杂性和时间。我们看到 Bodo 正面解决了这些问题，采用了一种适用于原生 Python 的优雅方法，用于横向扩展并行处理，它将改变分析的面貌。”"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"color","attrs":{"color":"#494949","name":"user"}}],"text":" "}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"color","attrs":{"color":"#494949","name":"user"}}],"text":"Daniel 还说到他知道 Nasre，但他是从一位数据科学家朋友那里听说了 Bodo，朋友告诉 Daniel 他感觉 Bodo “非常棒”。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"color","attrs":{"color":"#494949","name":"user"}}],"text":" "}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"color","attrs":{"color":"#494949","name":"user"}}],"text":"Nasre 准备利用新的资金投资于研发，同时发展一个营销和销售团队，建立并扩大公司团队规模。Narse 表示公司也在从融资向以客户和收入为中心转移。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"color","attrs":{"color":"#494949","name":"user"}}],"text":"尽管 Python 有一定的局限性，Bodo 仍将 Python 视作一个一流的默认平台，通过新的技术进一步提高 Python 解决事情的能力。正是这么多开发者的付出，造就了 Python 今天庞大的生态圈，Python 的强大离不开每一位支持者。"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"align":null,"level":3},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"IEEE Spectrum 2021 编程语言排名，Python 登顶"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"color","attrs":{"color":"#494949","name":"user"}}],"text":" "}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"color","attrs":{"color":"#494949","name":"user"}}],"text":"近几年，Python 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