Last Week in AI

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From the Editor: The Great Race for Cloud AI Dominance and its Impact in the AI Startup Ecosystem.

Amazon, Microsoft and Google have embarked in a frantic race to dominate the artificial intelligence(AI) market. To some extent, AI has become one of the few areas of differentiation between the three cloud giants. Every relevant capability of AI applications from experimentation to optimization can be found in the form of cloud services in these platforms. Just this week, Amazon unveiled a new batch of AI services for the AWS platforms during its re:Invent conference.

The massive investments that the cloud giants are making in the AI ecosystem is certainly pushing innovation in the space to a new level but it’s also having tangible side effects in the AI startup ecosystem. In the quest for capturing the best AI talent in the market, Microsoft, Amazon and Google have begun rapidly acquiring AI startups that show any signs of promise. The result is that most AI technology startups haven’t had the opportunity to flourish as independent companies compacting the innovation in the space. This is certainly an atypical trend…