DeepSpeed
https://github.com/deepspeedai/DeepSpeed
Microsoft's distributed-training library — ZeRO optimizer states/grads/params partitioning; ZeRO-Inference for serving. Foundation under many OSS LLM training stacks.
Active · Verified 2026-10-28 · fresh as of 2026-10-28 · 18 cited facts, 1 with a third-party source · 2 recorded changes · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- ZeRO-based distributed training repo fix
- Tier
- T1
- Section
- Training infrastructure
- Latest release
- v0.19.8 (2026-10-20) registry fix
- License
- Apache-2.0 repo fix
- Pricing
- searched not found fix
- Funding
- searched not found fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-28 fix
- Layer
- model-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- open-source repo fix
- Developer activity
- OpenRank 24.24 (12-mo avg 19.05) · 82 participants — 2026-09 third-party fix
When to use
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Pros & cons
Pros
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Cons
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Claims & capabilities
Widely used with HF/Accelerate.
Technical surface
- API surface
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- Backend storage
- searched not found
- Deployment
- Self-hosted only — library
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
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- MCP
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- A2A
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- OpenTelemetry
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- LoRA T3
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Sources (17 cited facts, 1 third-party)
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- What it is ZeRO-based distributed training repo
- What it does & what's distinct Microsoft's distributed-training library — ZeRO optimizer states/grads/params partitioni… repo
- Claims / benefits Widely used with HF/Accelerate. repo
- Created 2020 repo
- Latest release v0.19.8 (2026-10-20) registry
- License Apache-2.0 repo
- GitHub deepspeedai/DeepSpeed — ~43.3k stars, last commit 2026-10 repo
- Customers / scale Microsoft (Megatron-Turing NLG 530B), BLOOM, Falcon, ChatGPT training claims; broadly us… repo
- Deployment Self-hosted only — library registry
- Code/weights release Active — last commit 2026-05 · 42,313★ repo
- commit-trajectory [{"ym":"2024-02","cum":2181},{"ym":"2024-03","cum":2218},{"ym":"2024-04","cum":2280},{"y… repo
- download-trajectory [{"ym":"2025-11","monthly":815314,"cum":815314},{"ym":"2025-12","monthly":961655,"cum":1… registry
- architecture-deployment-locus local repo
- licensing-bucket open-source repo
- positioning-platform-vs-product platform repo
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup model-infra repo
- developer-activity-opendigger {"activity":313.01,"as_of":"2026-09","openrank_12mo":19.05,"openrank_current":24.24,"par… third-party
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