Google wants to bring its AI and machine learning tools to the enterprise

"Our goal is to create applications that can see, hear and understand," says Jeff Dean, senior fellow at Google and one of leaders of the firm's machine learning strategy. Artificial intelligence is a clear priority for Google. Last week, its AlphaGo program defeated world Go champion Lee Sedol, while its DeepMind arm is considered to be at the forefront of deep learning research. And now Google is increasingly opening its technology up to other businesses as it attempts to grow its cloud operations. At its Cloud Next conference Google unveiled the Cloud ML service which helps machine learning engineers build "sophisticated, large" models based on its TensorFlow deep learning library, which was opened sourced last year.