Replicate has a very simple premise: run and share machine learning models in the cloud, using containers technology. Sound familiar? That may be because Replicate’s founder and CEO, Ben Firshman, was previously the creator of Fig, which was acquired by Docker and then became Docker Compose.
Replicate is the end result of Firshman and his business partner Andreas Jansson wanting to create a similar technology for machine learning.
Bringing Containers to AI
What Firshman and Jansson created first was a product called Cog, which he has…