Bodo.ai 獲 1400 萬美元融資，Python 登頂 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 宣佈完成由戴爾科技資本領投的 1400 萬美元 A 輪融資。同時參與此輪融資的還有 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 成立於 2019 年，總部位於舊金山，由 Behzad Nasre（CEO） 和 Ehsan Totoni（CTO）創立，旨在徹底改變複雜的數據分析和機器學習應用程序，目標是使 Python 成爲一流的高性能和生產就緒平臺。Nasre 在創辦 Bodo 之前曾在英特爾工作了很長時間，他認識了 Totoni 並瞭解到他正致力於做一個使機器學習全民化並讓每個人都能進行並行學習的項目。Nasre 提到，並行計算是延長摩爾定律提高計算性能的唯一途徑。"}]},{"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":"新的編譯器技術，旨在讓 Python 更好地處理大規模數據"}]},{"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 目前正在開發一種新的編譯器技術，希望通過創新的編譯器技術來實現這一目標。Python 是人工智能和機器學習開發人員和數據科學家使用的主流編程語言之一，但在處理大規模數據時仍具有挑戰性。該編譯器技術使客戶能夠利用原生 Python 的簡單和靈活性，以極高的性能和低成本無法實現的類似超級計算的性能和線性並行可擴展性。通過消除使用新庫、API 或將 Python 重寫爲 Scala、C++、Java 等其他編程語言或 GPU 圖形處理單元代碼來實現可擴展性的需要。這個技術也可以實時製作數據分析工具，並用於金融、電信、零售和製造業等行業。"}]},{"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 聯合創始人兼首席執行官 Behzad Nasre 表示：“大數據越來越大，在當今數據驅動的經濟中，企業客戶需要速度和規模來滿足他們的數據分析需求。用於大規模數據處理的現有解決方法，如額外的庫和框架，無法解決潛在的規模和性能問題。Bodo 不僅解決了這個問題，而且採用了一種無需重寫原始應用程序代碼的方法。”"}]},{"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":"“客戶知道並行計算是滿足人工智能和機器學習計算需求並擴展摩爾定律的唯一途徑。但只有大型科技公司和政府實驗室的精選專家才能使用這種高性能計算，” Bodo.ai 的聯合創始人兼首席技術官 Ehsan Totoni 補充道。“我們的推理編譯器技術使以前由性能專家完成的並行化自動化，爲所有開發人員和企業提供了大衆化的計算能力。這將對大規模的人工智能、機器學習和分析社區產生深遠的影響。”"}]},{"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 還提到“爲了讓人工智能革命發生，開發人員必須能夠用簡單的 Python 寫代碼，這種高性能的能力將打開新的大門。”"}]},{"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 說，公司是在其產品已經成熟，並且對客戶有很好的吸引力的前提下去追求 A 輪資金的， Nasre 認爲戴爾技術資本“在儲備和他們在整個企業中發揮的作用方面具有獨特的優勢，在企業中擁有最有效的銷售隊伍”，這對我們很有幫助。"}]},{"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":"參與領投的戴爾科技公司的總經理 Daniel Docter 表示，“我們看到企業使用更多的機器學習和數據分析來推動業務洞察力和增長。幾乎一直需要近乎實時的更多更好的洞察力。但數據和分析的爆炸式增長伴隨着巨大的隱性成本--大量的基礎設施支出、代碼重寫、複雜性和時間。我們看到 Bodo 正面解決了這些問題，採用了一種適用於原生 Python 的優雅方法，用於橫向擴展並行處理，它將改變分析的面貌。”"}]},{"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 還說到他知道 Nasre，但他是從一位數據科學家朋友那裏聽說了 Bodo，朋友告訴 Daniel 他感覺 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 準備利用新的資金投資於研發，同時發展一個營銷和銷售團隊，建立並擴大公司團隊規模。Narse 表示公司也在從融資向以客戶和收入爲中心轉移。"}]},{"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":"儘管 Python 有一定的侷限性，Bodo 仍將 Python 視作一個一流的默認平臺，通過新的技術進一步提高 Python 解決事情的能力。正是這麼多開發者的付出，造就了 Python 今天龐大的生態圈，Python 的強大離不開每一位支持者。"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"align":null,"level":3},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"IEEE Spectrum 2021 編程語言排名，Python 登頂"}]},{"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":"近幾年，Python 憑藉簡單、可擴展性、面向對象、可移植、GUI編程支持等優勢，廣泛應用於人工智能與機器學習、桌面 GUI、圖像與文本處理、網絡爬蟲、數據科學與可視化、數字應用等多個重要領域，發展可謂勢如破竹。"}]},{"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":"在 IEEE Spectrum 最新發布的 2021 年度編程語言排行榜中，Python 牢牢佔據第一名的位置。（ IEEE Spectrum 排名收集的數據有 GitHub、Google、Hack News、Reddir、Stack Overflow、Twitter、CareerBuilder 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