H2O.ai Melds Machine Learning with Spark, Via Sparkling Water 2.0

H2O.ai Melds Machine Learning with Spark, Via Sparkling Water 2.0 by - Jul. 01, 2016 The Renaissance Continues for Open Source Artificial Intelligence Baidu Delivers a Hardened Open Source Deep Learning Tool Google Launches a Slew of Open Source Parsers, to Work with 40 Languages IBM's Massive Spark Initiatives Include an Offering for Data Scientists In recent interviews here on OStatic, found here and here, we have explored the efforts of H2O.ai, formerly known as Oxdata, which has steadily been carving out a niche with its open source software for big data analysis and machine learning. You can get the main H2O platform and Sparkling Water, a package that works with Apache Spark, by simply downloading them. You can run them on clusters powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others for just a few hundred dollars, putting powerful artificial intelligence muscle in reach of everyone. Now, H2O.ai has announced the availability of Sparkling Water 2.0. Sparkling Water 2.0 builds off the popularity of Sparkling Water, H2O.ai's API for Apache Spark, with additional features and functionality.