Bonsai joins Microsoft to cultivate our common vision: BRAINs for Autonomous Systems

Keen and I founded Bonsai in 2014 with the vision of putting AI in the hands of every developer. Over the past four years our team has worked tirelessly to make this vision a reality by combining the power of machine teaching and deep reinforcement learning into an end-to-end platform that is accessible not only to data scientists but software engineers and subject matter experts. The strongest initial commercial traction for this platform has been in the industrial verticals where customers are improving the operations of dynamic control systems across applications including robotics, HVAC, engines, wind turbines and machine tuning. The 30x performance improvement Siemens recently realized auto-calibrating CNC machines powered by a Bonsai BRAIN is just scratching the surface of the significant business impact deep reinforcement learning can bring to these real world systems. Going forward, we see a massive opportunity to empower enterprises & developers globally with the tools and technology needed to build and operate the BRAINs that power these intelligent autonomous systems.