In June, SAS announced that its revenue declined last year. Oh, wait, SAS didn’t announce that, they quietly slipped it into the back of their annual report. SAS revenue declined from $3.3 billion in 2018 to $3.1 billion in 2019. SAS blamed the decline on three things: (1) new pricing strategy; (2) adoption of the ASC 606 accounting standard; and
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Top AI/ML vendor news for 2019. New AutoML. Several established vendors added automation to their data science and machine learning product line. IBM launched AutoAI, a component of IBM Watson Studio. SAS added AutoML components to SAS Visual Data Mining. Google Cloud Platform launched Cloud AutoML Tables to beta. Alteryx announced the beta release of Assisted Analytics. Databricks announced an
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Amazon Web Services announces enhancements to Amazon SageMaker, plus a slew of new AI/ML services. Enhancements to SageMaker include: Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth, a service that helps customers build training datasets for machine learning. Support for reinforcement learning Amazon SageMaker Neo, a capability that enables developers to train machine learning models once and run them on many different hardware
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Hello, everyone! It’s time for another roundup of machine learning and AI news. Product enhancement, customer reference, partnership, acquisition, or other significant contributions. No hype! Vendors listed below in alphabetical order. Algorithmia Algorithmia publishes its first State of Enterprise Machine Learning report based on a survey of 500 data scientists. AWS Machine Learning AWS announces enhancements to SageMaker’s built-in image classifier.
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Product enhancements, customer references, partnerships, acquisitions, or other significant contributions to machine learning. In general industry news, Forrester releases 2018 “Wave” reports for data science and machine learning. Positive implications for SAS, IBM, RapidMiner, Oracle, and Domino Data Labs. Negative implications for Microsoft, Dataiku, Anaconda, and Google Cloud Platform. Full story here. Vendors listed below in alphabetical order. Dataiku Dataiku
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Product enhancements, customer references, partnerships, acquisitions, financials, or other significant news for ML/AI vendors in August 2018. Alteryx Announces general availability for Release 2018.3. Key new bits: interactive visualization; enhanced Spark integration; a Jupyter notebook for Python scripting. Andrew Brust opines. Releases Q2 financials, revealing 54% YOY topline growth. Amazon Web Services Adds support for custom attributes to SageMaker model
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Hi. I’m not dead yet. Just on hiatus from writing due to the demands of my day job. Thought I’d restart this vendor news roundup, on a monthly cadence. Hard news about vendors in the AI/ML/DL space: product enhancements, major reference customers, major partnerships, acquisitions, and funding rounds. No planted articles. Press releases stripped of hype. Amazon Machine Learning Announces
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This is the second installment in a four-part review of 2016 in machine learning and deep learning. Part One, here, covered general trends. In Part Two, we review the year in open source machine learning and deep learning projects. Parts Three and Four will cover commercial machine learning and deep learning software and services. There are thousands of open source projects
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This is the first installment in a four-part review of 2016 in machine learning and deep learning. In the first post, we look back at ML/DL news organized in five high-level topic areas: Concerns about bias Interpretable models Deep learning accelerates Supercomputing goes mainstream Cloud platforms build ML/DL stacks In Part Two, we cover developments in each of the leading open
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ICYMI: Top machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) stories from last week. Note to readers: Due to the slower cadence of news as the holidays approach, the daily roundup will be on hiatus until January. Watch for a roundup of the year in machine learning this week, and a look ahead to 2017. Thank you for reading. News — Microsoft
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