In the 1990s, the business world underwent a seismic shift with the advent of the internet. It changed the way companies did ever y thing from creating their products to selling them to consumers. These days, companies are poised on the edge of another massive transition toward artificial intelligence and machine learning. “AI is going to touch every company, in every industry, in a material way,” says Rodrigo Liang, cofounder and CEO of AI solutions provider SambaNova. “It’s going to be such a competitive advantage.”
Yet, AI and machine learning isn’t accessible to every company. In-house AI systems typically require large staffs and heavy investments in infrastructure, putting the technology out of reach for many organizations. Liang and SambaNova co-founders Kunle Olukotun and Christopher Ré rejected that resource-intensive approach, aiming instead to democratize AI with an extensible subscription-based machine-learning service platform that doesn’t require an army of experts to make it work. “Some of the top companies have the ability to establish AI labs with hundreds and hundreds of AI scientists and data scientists,” Liang says. “But the large majority of companies in the world aren’t doing that.”
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Yet, AI and machine learning isn’t accessible to every company. In-house AI systems typically require large staffs and heavy investments in infrastructure, putting the technology out of reach for many organizations. Liang and SambaNova co-founders Kunle Olukotun and Christopher Ré rejected that resource-intensive approach, aiming instead to democratize AI with an extensible subscription-based machine-learning service platform that doesn’t require an army of experts to make it work. “Some of the top companies have the ability to establish AI labs with hundreds and hundreds of AI scientists and data scientists,” Liang says. “But the large majority of companies in the world aren’t doing that.”
Continue reading: https://www.fastcompany.com/90701629/making-ai-accessible-to-every-enterprise
