AI platforms arriving soon

AI is an omni-purpose technology that can bring improvements in efficiency and insights to almost any business process. But through my qualitative and quantitive research and conversations with practitioners, I've found that the use cases for AI and machine learning get very industry-specific, very quickly. That’s because they are driven by data and each company's… Continue reading AI platforms arriving soon

The Kurian case for Google & machine learning

Google’s recent Let’s Talk AI event in SanFrancisco looks like being the last major customer event led by Diane Greene, as we recently found out that Google has hired Thomas Kurian, an Oracle veteran that left that company over the summer. He joins Google November 26, before taking the reins from Greene in January. A lot… Continue reading The Kurian case for Google & machine learning

For Google, the biggest barrier to AI is its biggest opportunity in AI

At the recent Google Cloud Next conference, the company's Google's enterprise division made a plethora of announcements, the details of which are here and there are links to our analysis of it all at the end of this post. One of my key takeaways was that Google sees the biggest barrier to machine learning as its biggest… Continue reading For Google, the biggest barrier to AI is its biggest opportunity in AI