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 September 2026, ranking #90,627 among 486,860 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 2,003 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 17 accounts a total of 44 times, reflecting steady engagement from the AI and machine-learning developer community.
Who follows Ray on X?
The accounts that follow Ray include 44 founders, 10 angel investors, 10 influencers and 3 VCs, among them Tarun Chitra, Martin Shkreli, Chris Maddern, Teknium, Sigil Wen and evan.sui.