Competitors include: * Azure Cognitive Services (REST-based) https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/directory/ https://azure.microsoft.

Competitors include: * Azure Cognitive Services (REST-based) https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/directory/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service... * Amazon ML (REST-based), including Polly, Rekognition etc. https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/?nc2=h_l3_ai https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/?nc2=h_l3_ai AI-as-a-Service is a interesting space that is likely to grow over time. Part of the problem with doing AI in-house is that it's really hard/expensive to get large corpuses of correctly labeled data to train your algorithms on, so what these folks are really selling is a set of trained model weights exposed as an API.