Algorithmia aims to democratize deep learning with expansion of its marketplace for algorithms

But Seattle-based startup Algorithmia is aiming to make deep-learning algorithms from the foremost researchers accessible to anyone wanting to harness the technology. Algorithmia today is adding 15 deep-learning algorithms to its marketplace of roughly 2,000 callable APIs of all kinds, said Diego Oppenheimer, Algorithmia's founder and CEO. Algorithms are sets of rules or procedures used to solve a computing problem. Companies building apps might use the deep-learning algorithms to identify faces in a crowd, detect nudity or gore in images, colorize images, or recognize stress in a human voice. The company has also added access to the specialized computing needed to run the sophisticated algorithms.