Thursday, 9 March 2017

Google acquires Kaggle

Technology giant Google has announced the acquisition of Kaggle, a start-up that hosts a number of data scientists, for an undisclosed amount at the Cloud Next 2017 conference. Founded in 2010, Kaggle is home to the world’s largest community of data scientists and machine learning enthusiasts.
More than 8 Lakh data experts use Kaggle to explore, analyze and understand the latest updates in machine learning and data analytics. Kaggle and Google Cloud will continue to support machine learning and deployment services while offering the community the ability to store and query large datasets.

Google must lower the barriers of entry to AI and make it available to the largest community of developers, users and enterprises so that they can apply it to their own unique needs. Making Google Cloud Technology available to Kaggle community will allow us to offer access to powerful infrastructure, scalable training and deployment services and the ability to store and query large data sets.

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, the two public clouds that are bigger than Google cloud, also offer data sciences services. Google cloud already provides Cloud Machine Learning  Engine, among other managed services for working on data.

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