6 Machine Learning Giants to Watch: Amazon to Salesforce.com

Amazon is extending its big data cloud platform across Europe, and the online retailer has machine learning research groups in Bangalore, Seattle, Palo Alto and Berlin, The Wall Street Journal reported. CEO Jeff Bezos is obsessed with predictive analytics and artificial intelligence -- anything that can help Amazon to better forecast customer wants and needs before the trends ever become obvious to the casual observer. The Amazon Machine Learning platform also is available for customer use via Amazon Web Services. Facebook's Artificial Intelligence Research project (FAIR) focuses on "giving people better ways to communicate." Some of Facebook's top AI researchers are Microsoft veterans, and those experts have a habit of sharing Facebook's knowledge.