The Data Race – Bottos – Medium

Companies that are willing to implement machine learning in their business operations are finding, with not much surprise, that acquiring the algorithms that make machines intelligent may just be the easy part. In fact, countless companies are developing and selling advanced algorithms capable to churn out highly valuable insights, and with the Bottos model marketplace it may become even easier to get your hands upon sophisticated AI models, to the extent that they're mostly becoming commoditized. What's not becoming commoditized, though, is data, and is indeed emerging as the key differentiator in the machine learning race, mainly because good data is uncommon. Data is becoming a key advantage because many companies don't have the data they need. They, as well as researchers, usually find that good quality data is out of reach, most of the time isolated in data silos or in the hands of a few data providers that have sent the prices to the moon.