Best tech products and most innovative AI/ML companies of 2022

We asked some of TechRepublic's contributing writers to offer their expertise on software, networking solutions and hardware. They weighed in on the usefulness and standout features of some of the best technology for remote work, cybersecurity, collaboration and DaaS; in addition, Matt Asay compiled a list of the most innovative artificial intelligence and machine learning companies. The following tech products and companies were deemed the best of its category. In Matt Asay's article about the eight AI and machine learning companies, he ranked Hugging Face as the most innovative. Here's what he had to say: "Hugging Face, which started as a chatbot and evolved to offer a registry of NLP models used to deliver those chatbots, is now on track to become the GitHub of ML. More than 10,000 companies use Hugging Face to privately collaborate on ML applications."