In the Bigger Picture¶
History & Current Status¶
KServe is an open-source, serverless machine learning inference platform designed to run on Kubernetes. Originally developed in 2019 by teams from Google, IBM, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, and Seldon, it was initially released as KFServing. In September 2021, the project was rebranded to KServe and transitioned to an independent GitHub organization. KServe is currently incubated under the LF AI & Data Foundation.   
As of May 2025, KServe has over 4,000 stars on GitHub and more than 1,000 contributors. The community is active, hosting biweekly public meetings and maintaining comprehensive documentation. KServe is utilized by organizations such as Amazon Web Services, Bloomberg, Gojek, IBM, NVIDIA, and Samsung SDS.