What Are Python Wheels? A Guide to Pre-Built Python Packages
When you type pip install numpy into your terminal, it usually finishes in seconds. What you may not realize is numpy installs so fast because a pre-built wheel exists for your platform. For packages where no wheel is available, or in environments where the wrong version is pulled, that same command can flood your terminal […]
From Compliance Burden to Competitive Advantage​
From Compliance Burden to Competitive Advantage How Financial Firms Use Anaconda Table of Contents Financial institutions face a version of this problem constantly: the infrastructure powering modern AI and analytics, including open source libraries, shared development environments, and model deployment pipelines, was not designed with bank-grade compliance in mind. The teams that need to move […]
The Ultimate Guide to AI Model Deployment
Corporate investment in AI has reached a scale that would have seemed implausible just a few years ago. Organizations are channeling billions of dollars into AI infrastructure, driven by the AI race among hyperscalers (Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta) and the rapid adoption of agentic AI. Gartner estimates worldwide spending on AI will reach $2.5 trillion […]
Introducing the Next-Gen Anaconda Command Line Interface (CLI)
What’s New If you build with Python, ML, or AI, you’ve spent more hours than you would like setting up your environment instead of using it and figuring out which Python version your machine is actually using. Re-pointing channels every time you switch machines. The Anaconda Command Line Interface (CLI) is a single executable that […]
Main-X Channel: More Packages, Same Trusted Source
What’s New Every Anaconda user has hit the same wall. They run conda install, and instead of a package, they get a PackagesNotFoundError. The package is popular on PyPI. But it isn’t in Anaconda’s main channel and now, that means they have to download it from PyPI instead. For individual developers, this is daily friction. […]
Anaconda Acquires Outerbounds to Unify AI-Native Development
Today, Anaconda is announcing the acquisition of Outerbounds, the company behind Metaflow. This isn’t a typical acquisition. This is closing the gap that enterprises have been working around for the last three years. And that gap is between building AI and trusting AI in production. Here’s why. AI is not an incremental shift. It is […]
Anaconda Acquires Outerbounds to Power End-to End, Secure-by-Default AI-Native Development at Enterprise Scale
Acquisition gives enterprise teams a governed path from AI experimentation to production without disrupting existing workflows or infrastructure AUSTIN, Texas — April 29, 2026 — Anaconda Inc., the trusted foundation for AI-native development, today announced the acquisition of Outerbounds, the company behind Metaflow, the open source AI/ML orchestration framework trusted by some of the world’s […]
Open Source Security: Risks, Benefits, and Best Practices
Open source is the foundation of modern software. Studies show that 96% of enterprise software applications include open source components, and 70–90% of every codebase consists of open source modules. Anaconda’s research illustrates that reality, too: 91% of IT workers report using open source software in their current workflow. That ubiquity brings transparency, rapid innovation, […]
AI in Banking: How Financial Institutions Are Scaling Intelligent Systems
The banking industry has been a pioneer and proving ground for enterprise AI. Even before other sectors experimented with pilots, financial institutions moved AI from proof of concept to production at scale. This shift has happened over the past decade, as banking’s data-rich environment, regulatory requirements, and competitive pressures pushed the industry to adopt AI […]
The Python Packages You Didn’t Install Are Now Your Biggest Security Risk
It’s been a brutal two weeks for the open source supply chain. On March 19, the Trivy vulnerability scanner, the tool many teams rely on to detect supply chain attacks, was itself compromised (oh, the irony). Five days later, a cascading effect from the Trivy breach led directly to the compromise of LiteLLM, one of […]