Friday, August 01, 2025
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Introducing PHP-ORT: enabling native machine learning inference in PHP applications
PHP-ORT introduces a production-ready machine learning inference engine directly into PHP, enabling PHP developers to build intelligent applications without relying on external services. This project aims to keep PHP relevant in the AI-first future by providing native ML capabilities with strong performance optimizations.
Why it matters: PHP powers 78% of websites, so native ML inference democratizes AI at massive scale for millions of developers.
The big picture: PHP-ORT focuses on inference, complementing Python's ML training dominance, and aims to become standard PHP AI infrastructure.
Performance highlights: AVX2 SIMD acceleration delivers up to 8x speedups, fully utilizing CPU cores for efficient real-time ML inference.
Commenters say: Many appreciate the move to bring ML to PHP and hope this spurs ecosystem growth, though some question PHP’s relevance among newer developers.