Probabl's CEO, Yann Lechelle, formerly of Scaleway, says the company's initial offerings will include professional services, training, and certification, specifically around scikit-learn, and will cover the complete data cycle from organization and cleaning to machine learning and MLOps. The company, which has public, private, and individual shareholders, aims to release truly open-source projects, in contrast to recent trends in the AI industry.
Key takeaways:
- Probabl is a new AI startup from France, spun off from Inria, and is centered around the open-source data science library, scikit-learn.
- Scikit-learn is a Python module used by machine learning teams, with over 45,000 stars on GitHub, and is used by big companies like Spotify, Hugging Face, Booking.com, and Dataiku.
- Probabl was created to ensure that projects like scikit-learn remain actively developed and properly funded, with its commercial offerings including professional services, training, and certification around scikit-learn.
- Probabl has three types of shareholders: public shareholders like Inria’s investment subsidiary and the French government, private shareholders like Costanoa Ventures, and individual contributors.