Ray is an open-source distributed AI compute engine, consisting of a core distributed runtime and a set of AI libraries designed to accelerate machine-learning workloads at scale. Ray's Twitter Score is 10 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #92,536 among 498,348 tracked accounts.
Ray was originally developed at UC Berkeley's RISELab and was founded by Robert Nishihara, Philipp Moritz, and Ion Stoica. The project is affiliated with Anyscale, the company built around it. On October 22, 2025, Ray became a foundation-hosted project under the PyTorch Foundation, itself part of the Linux Foundation, marking a significant step in its governance as an independent open-source project.
Ray has published 2,032 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 18 accounts a total of 49 times, reflecting steady engagement from the AI and machine-learning developer community.
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The accounts that follow Ray include 43 founders, 10 angel investors, 10 influencers and 3 VCs, among them Tarun Chitra, Martin Shkreli, Chris Maddern, Sigil Wen, Teknium and evan.sui.