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Unified framework for scaling AI and Python applications

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Python Apache-2.0Last pushed Jul 7, 2026

Overview

Ray is a compute engine that includes a distributed runtime core and libraries tailored for AI tasks like ML training, hyperparameter tuning, reinforcement learning, and serving. It supports data scalability through Datasets, facilitating efficient distribution of datasets across clusters.

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pip install ray

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Ray is a unified framework for scaling AI and Python applications. Ray consists of a core distributed runtime and a set of AI libraries for simplifying ML compute:

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Learn more about Ray AI Libraries_:

  • Data_: Scalable Datasets for ML
  • Train_: Distributed Training
  • Tune_: Scalable Hyperparameter Tuning
  • RLlib_: Scalable Reinforcement Learning
  • Serve_: Scalable and Programmable Serving

Or more about Ray Core_ and its key abstractions:

  • Tasks_: Stateless functions executed in the cluster.
  • Actors_: Stateful worker processes created in the cluster.
  • Objects_: Immutable values accessible across the cluster.

Learn more about Monitoring and Debugging:

  • Monitor Ray apps and clusters with the Ray Dashboard <https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/ray-core/ray-dashboard.html>__.
  • Debug Ray apps with the Ray Distributed Debugger <https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/ray-observability/ray-distributed-debugger.html>__.

Ray runs on any machine, cluster, cloud provider, and Kubernetes, and features a growing ecosystem of community integrations_.

Install Ray with: pip install ray. For nightly wheels, see the Installation page <https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/ray-overview/installation.html>__.

.. _Serve: https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/serve/index.html .. _Data: https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/data/data.html .. _Workflow: https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/workflows/ .. _Train: https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/train/train.html .. _Tune: https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/tune/index.html .. _RLlib: https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/rllib/index.html .. _ecosystem of community integrations: https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/ray-overview/ray-libraries.html

Why Ray?

Today's ML workloads are increasingly compute-intensive. As convenient as they are, single-node development environments such as your laptop cannot scale to meet these demands.

Ray is a unified way to scale Python and AI applications from a laptop to a cluster.

With Ray, you can seamlessly scale the same code from a laptop to a cluster. Ray is designed to be general-purpose, meaning that it can performantly run any kind of workload. If your application is written in Python, you can scale it with Ray, no other infrastructure required.

More Information

  • Documentation_
  • Ray Architecture whitepaper_
  • Exoshuffle: large-scale data shuffle in Ray