Jaikumar Ganesh, Anyscale, on Reliable AI — Interview with Alexy

Jaikumar Ganesh, head of engineering at Anyscale, the company behind Ray, on reliable AI at AI By the Bay 2025. What excites him is AI in the verticals: Halter in New Zealand guiding cows across farms, biopharma companies discovering drugs. Reliability is the magic moment when a user achieves their goal efficiently, in a mundane or an exploratory task. The Bay Area lives in a bubble of GPU availability and frontier models; the impactful, so-called boring AI serves industries it rarely thinks about. LAMP has given way to the PARK stack, PyTorch, AI foundation models, agents and frameworks, Ray, and Kubernetes, adopted at Pinterest, Uber, Roblox, Netflix, Apple, Shopify, and Cursor.