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San Francisco, California

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Weights & Biases (W&B) is a leading artificial intelligence developer platform headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2017 by Lukas Biewald, Chris Van Pelt, and Shawn Lewis—the same team behind Figure Eight—the company was established to address the "reproducibility crisis" in machine learning. Before W&B, many ML engineers tracked experiments manually, making it nearly impossible to reproduce results or collaborate effectively across distributed teams. The company provides a comprehensive MLOps and LLMOps infrastructure designed to help data scientists and ML engineers track, visualize, and optimize their models. Its core platform includes tools for experiment tracking, model versioning, hyperparameter tuning, and data visualization. By integrating with popular frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow through minimal code, W&B automatically captures experiment metadata and system metrics, providing real-time dashboards that allow teams to monitor training runs from anywhere. Weights & Biases has expanded its product suite to meet the demands of the generative AI era. Key offerings include W&B Weave, which helps developers iterate, evaluate, and monitor AI agents; W&B Prompts, a tool for fine-tuning and debugging large language models (LLMs); and W&B Guardrails, which provides pre-built scorers to manage safety and quality by addressing risks like bias and hallucinations. The platform is trusted by over 1,000 companies and 900,000 users, including industry leaders such as OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Toyota, and Adobe. Financially, Weights & Biases experienced rapid growth as an independent entity, raising approximately $250 million to $305 million in funding from top-tier investors including Insight Partners, Felicis Ventures, Coatue, and Sapphire Ventures. Its valuation reached $1.25 billion following a Series C round in August 2023. In a significant market shift, the company was acquired by CoreWeave in May 2025 for an estimated $1.7 billion. This acquisition transitioned W&B from a standalone MLOps vendor into an integrated component of CoreWeave’s specialized AI infrastructure, combining its industry-standard experiment tracking with massive scale compute resources. Weights & Biases is recognized for its high user satisfaction, often cited for its intuitive interface and ease of setup compared to open-source alternatives. The company maintains rigorous security standards, holding certifications for ISO 27001, SOC 2, and HIPAA, making it suitable for enterprise-grade deployments in regulated industries. Currently operating as a subsidiary of CoreWeave, the company continues to focus on its mission of building the best tools for AI developers while scaling its capabilities to support the next generation of foundation model builders and enterprise AI applications.