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Determined

Determined AI
open core / Overall score: 3.2

Machine-learning platform for distributed training, hyperparameter search and experiment tracking on a cluster it manages itself. An experiment configuration names slots_per_trial, and Determined's scheduler allocates that many GPUs - spanning whole agent machines where the number requires it - so every trial starts with all its resources at once. Searchers run many trials against one configuration.

Acquired by HPE, where it ships as Machine Learning Development Environment. The open repository's last push is 2025-03-20 and docs.determined.ai no longer resolves in DNS - two separate observations, recorded as such: a documentation site going away is not itself evidence the project is abandoned. Capability is cited against the in-tree documentation, which is reachable. Verified 2026-09-15 via the repository, its license module and the PyPI download API.

Openness

4 high confidence
4.0
license
Apache-2.0(OSI
source
public(determined-ai/determined is the open platform)
core-gated
gated(master/internal/license/license.go ships an IsEE() check returning true when a license key and public key are present, so an enterprise edition is unlocked by a key rather than shipped in the open tree)

Apache-2.0 source with an enterprise edition behind a key. The open repository itself carries the gate: master/internal/license/license.go defines IsEE(), which returns true when both a license key and a verifying public key are set. That is functionality unlocked by a key rather than a separate product sold alongside, which is what this dimension asks about.

Adoption

2 high confidence
2.0

The PyPI download API reports 62,711 downloads of determined in the trailing 30 days, inside the 10K-100K band for level 2.

Capability

5 medium confidence
5.0

Band 5 on Determined's own documentation: setting slots_per_trial to 16 means 'two 8-GPU agent machines will be used in a trial', an allocation spanning machines and granted together by Determined's own scheduler over its resource pools. It chooses the machines and holds the set, which is what this band asks for.

Verified 2026-09-15