Today's AI Software Infrastructure Landscape (And Trends Shaping The Market)

At Work-Bench, we host quarterly peer roundtables connecting corporate executives solving some of the largest technology pain-points facing their organization. At our Machine Intelligence Roundtable a few weeks back, it became clear that ML and AI were the most significant initiatives this year and most of the attendees were actively building supporting infrastructure. Priorities included navigating build vs. buy scenarios, hiring data science talent, avoiding vendor lock-in and cloud strategy. So far, investments made in ML and AI are typically aiding in BI reports but some folks in our network are exploring infrastructure to drive a flywheel of value to customers using data they have collected. The teams we've backed at UpLevel Security, Merlon Intelligence, Socure are disrupting entire industries because they've built this infrastructure as well as a moat around high value data.