Vodafone and Google launch AI Booster platform

A new platform launched by Vodafone and Google called AI Booster aims to handle thousands of ML models a day across 18 countries. AI Booster is the result of 18 months of development and is built upon Google's Vertex AI and integrates with Vodafone's Neuron platform. Vertex AI, among other Google technologies, had not been officially announced when Vodafone started development on AI Booster. "To maximise business value at pace and scale, our vision was to enable fast creation and horizontal/vertical scaling of use cases in an automated, standardised manner. To do this, 18 months ago we set out to build a next-generation AI/ML platform based on new Google technology, some of which hadn't even been announced yet. We knew it wouldn't be easy. People said, 'Shoot for the stars and you might get off the ground…' Today, we're really proud that AI Booster is truly taking off, and went live in almost double the markets we had originally planned. Together, we've used the best possible ML Ops tools and created Vodafone's AI Booster Platform to make data scientists' lives easier, maximise value, and take co-creation and scaling of use cases globally to another level."