There’s No Such Thing As The Machine Learning Platform

Vendors are racing to create the dominant machine learning platform. But the concept of the machine learning platform doesn’t really exist. Read Ronald Schmelzer’s article in Forbes discussing the four different machine learning platforms:

In the past few years, you might have noticed the increasing pace at which vendors are rolling out “platforms” that serve the AI ecosystem, namely addressing data science and machine learning (ML) needs. The “Data Science Platform” and “Machine Learning Platform” are at the front lines of the battle for the mind share and wallets of data scientists, ML project managers, and others that manage AI projects and initiatives. If you’re a major technology vendor and you don’t have some sort of big play in the AI space, then you risk rapidly becoming irrelevant. But what exactly are these platforms and why is there such an intense market share grab going on?

Read more in Forbes here.