The Hyperscalers Point The Way To Integrated AI Stacks

Enterprises know they want to do machine learning, but they also know they can't afford to think too long or too hard about it. They need to act, and they have specific business problems that they want to solve. And they know instinctively and anecdotally from the experience of the hyperscalers and the HPC centers of the world that machine learning techniques can be utterly transformative in augmenting existing applications, replacing hand-coded applications, or creating whole new classes of applications that were not possible before. They also have to decide if they want to run their AI workloads on-premise or on any one of a number of clouds where a lot of the software for creating models and training them are available as a service. And let's acknowledge that a lot of those models were created by the public cloud giants for internal workloads long before they were peddled as a service.