My AI is Better than Your AI!

The AI software field is becoming highly congested and is further compounded by AI being integrated with many enterprise software stacks. This has led to massive market differentiation problems for vendors. So now that the claim "my AI is better than your AI" is meaningless what's an AI software vendor to do?

C3.ai which serves as a valuation proxy for most of the industry has determined they can do 'IBM faster' with AI tools bundled with consulting teams serving any enterprise. Others have chosen to do the same with services aimed at specific verticals. But another approach popularized by Canvass AI seems to be taking rapid hold. It's very much a page from Apple's playbook - a dogged focus on a specific user and experience.

With Canvass, process engineeers can employ AI to optimize manufacturing operations like they use spreadsheets. By reducing the dependency on data scientists Canvass has managed to crack the AI scalability problem and a by-product of such an approach is that manufacturers can now readily achieve their sustainability goals.