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📝 Editorial: Uber Continues its Open-Source ML Traction

When we think about active contributors to open-source machine learning (ML), we immediately gravitate towards big tech platforms providers like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. We do not immediately associate companies like Uber with open-source ML contributions. However, the transportation giant has quietly become one of the most active sources of innovation for open-source ML projects. In the last few years, Uber has open-sourced over a dozen of ML projects in diverse areas such as low-code ML (Ludwig), distributed training (Horovod), probabilistic programming (Pyro), debugging (Manifold). Just this week, Uber released a new version of Orbit, a very innovative time-series forecasting framework…