API World 2018

Training AI in-house is often infeasible as it requires a critical mass of talent and data, and has high R&D risks. For Cognitive AI, like machine translation and speech recognition, hundreds of pre-trained and adaptive models are already available on the market via APIs from many vendors. Their performance varies case by case and change often. Their prices are 100x-200x times different, hence a wrong choice may be a complete miss.

In this talk, we argue that the only way to go is to evaluate and continuously optimize AI vendor portfolio and introduce our vendor-agnostic demand-side API platform for AI.