Spell

Overview

Spell was a New York, NY-based MLOps company providing infrastructure to train, deploy and operationalize deep learning models at scale[1]. Founded in 2017[3], the company was headquartered at 2 Gansevoort St, New York, NY 10014[4]. Spell's platform offered Model Lineage, Infrastructure Automation, and an extensible API layer for integrating third-party experiment-tracking and monitoring tools[6]. The company reported over 100,000 runs since inception and thousands of daily active users[5]. Spell's customers included AlphaSense, Leia Inc, Originate, Resemble.AI, Cadmium and Growth Engine[7]. The company was recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor for Enterprise AI Operationalization and Engineering in October 2021 and as a Contender in The Forrester Wave: AI Infrastructure, Q4 2021[10]. Spell partnered with chipmaker Graphcore to offer an IPU Test Drive combining Graphcore hardware with Spell software[8]. Spell was subsequently acquired by Reddit[9][12].

Spell's about page stated "2017 Spell was founded". [3]

Spell listed its headquarters as "2 Gansevoort St, New York, NY 10014, United States". [4]

Spell's platform centred on Model Lineage (a persistent record of the model lifespan from experiment to deployment), Infrastructure Automation, and an extensible API layer for integrating third-party experiment-tracking and monitoring tools. [6]

Growth & traction

Spell reported "+100k Runs" since inception and "Thousands" of daily active users. [5]

Spell was named a Gartner Cool Vendor for Enterprise AI Operationalization and Engineering in October 2021 and a Contender in The Forrester Wave: AI Infrastructure, Q4 2021. [10]

Customers

Spell's case studies named AlphaSense, Leia Inc, Originate, Resemble.AI, Cadmium and Growth Engine. [7]

Partnerships

Spell partnered with UK chipmaker Graphcore to build "the next generation of AI infrastructure" and the two announced a free IPU Test Drive pairing Graphcore AI hardware with Spell software. [8]