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9 facts from 2 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2023
Chris Van Pelt said Weights & Biases had grown to about 200 people working on several parts of the MLOps pipeline.
“we've grown now. We're a company of 200 people. We have lots of engineers working on, um, lots of different aspects of the the ML Ops pipeline”
2025
Weights & Biases was recently acquired by CoreWeave, and host Lukas Biewald used GitHub's acquisition as his model of a successful one.
“Weights and Biases was recently acquired by CoreWeave, and GitHub was one of the analogies that I used in my head”
Undated
Chris Van Pelt founded Figure Eight before co-founding Weights & Biases and had worked in machine learning for over 15 years.
“Before Weights and Biases, Chris founded Figure Eight, and Chris has been doing machine learning for over 15 years.”
Undated
Weights & Biases founders reached Toyota Research Institute through relationships built at CrowdFlower/Figure Eight.
“through some relationships that we had built at at CrowdFlower Figure eight to be able to, like, talk to a team like Toyota Research Institute.”
Undated
Weights & Biases used MySQL because Google Cloud offered managed MySQL but not managed Postgres at the time.
“We used MySQL as the like data store for for everything because at the time we were on Google Cloud. And all they had was a managed MySQL offering, they didn't have managed Postgres.”
Undated
Chris Van Pelt says Semantic UI is no longer updated and the Weights & Biases team is replacing it with a new UI framework.
“Semantic UI isn't really being updated anymore. Now. It's like all over the code base, so the team's like creating a new UI framework.”
Undated
Caryn Marooney noted that OpenAI was Weights & Biases' first customer.
“I mean, you guys did have OpenAI as your 1st customer, so you could argue that one thing was pretty meaningful”
Undated
OpenAI turned to Weights & Biases when it had a problem because the company had kept in contact with its researchers.
“ultimately, because we had been talking to them and they were aware of us. When they had a problem, they thought, Hey, maybe Weights and Biases could help us with this problem”
Undated
Weights & Biases sets top two to three goals every two weeks and shares them with the company, rolling them into quarterly goals.
“So, um, you know, every two weeks we sit down and say, Okay, what are what are like top two to three goals for these two weeks? And those goals are then, you know, shared with the the company.”
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