The Sequence Scope: A Heroku for Machine Learning

The Sequence Scope is a summary of the most important published research papers, released technology and startup news in the AI ecosystem in the last week. This compendium is part of TheSequence newsletter. Data scientists, scholars, and developers from Microsoft Research, Intel Corporation, Linux Foundation AI, Google, Lockheed Martin, Cardiff University, Mellon College of Science, Warsaw University of Technology, Universitat Politècnica de València and other companies and universities are already subscribed to TheSequence. Years ago, cloud startup Heroku was able to successfully challenge cloud providers such as Amazon and Microsoft by providing a super simple model for building cloud applications. For years, Heroku was able to remain competitive in the midst of AWS and Azure growth, until it was acquired by Salesforce for $212 million.