The document provides tips for choosing an AI platform from cloud providers. It discusses key factors to consider like cloud platform choice, data ownership and privacy, language support, API availability, and cost. The major cloud platforms that provide AI capabilities are Amazon AI, Google AI, Azure AI, IBM Watson, SAP Leonardo AI, and Apple Siri. Language support is mostly limited to major languages like English and Spanish. API availability and cost will depend on subscription models, usage-based pricing, and the region. Choosing a preferred cloud provider or hybrid solution also impacts which platform to use.

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Merja Kajava
@mkajava
TIPS FOR CHOOSING AI APIS
FROM CLOUD PROVIDERS
THE ULTIMATE AI
PLATFORM
APIDays Helsinki 2019

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MERJA KAJAVA
Founder
Senior Consultant
Motto: The devil is in the details

3. You have the business need and you need a platform for AI
SO YOU ARE ABOUT TO BUILD
AN APPLICATION USING AI

4. WHY NOT
BUILD THE SOLUTION BY USING APIS
FROM AI PLATFORMS

5. AI platforms provide APIs for
SPEECH VISION LANGUAGE
+ INSIGHTS

6. Speech Vision Language
AI PLATFORM ELEMENTS
Machine
Learning
Tools
APIs for Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning Libraries
Cloud infrastructure
Notebooks
AI Pipelines
Keras Pytorch TensorFlow Scikit-learn
GPU Data storage IoT

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WHO ARETHE MAJOR
CONTENDERS?

8. Cloud Platforms
Amazon AI Google AI Azure AI IBM Watson
AI PLATFORM PROVIDERS

9. Surprising challengers
SAP Leonardo AI Apple Siri
AI PLATFORM PROVIDERS

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HOWTO CHOOSE?

11. KEY FACTORS
1. Cloud platform choice
2. Data ownership and privacy
3. Language
4. API availability
5. Cost
HOW TO CHOOSE AI PLATFORM

12. CLOUD PLATFORM CHOICE
Select most of
the components
from one vendor
PREFERRED
CLOUD
PLATFORM
Use the ”best-
of-breed”
approach
HYBRID
SOLUTIONVS.

13. Who owns the data?
DATA OWNERSHIP AND PRIVACY
Does the
API provide
pretrained
data?
PRETRAINED
DATA
Who owns the
training data?
DATA
OWNERSHIP
Where is the
training data and
the predicted
data stored?
DATA LOCATION

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Entäpä suomen kieli?
Eller fungerar det på svenska?
En werkt het ook in het Nederlands?
Translation to English:
Does this function in Finnish?
How about Swedish?
And is all this possible also in Dutch?

15. MOST PLATFORMS SUPPORT
”MAJOR” LANGUAGES
ENGLISH (US)
SPANISH (US)
LANGUAGE SUPPORT FOR VOICE AND NATURAL LANGUAGE

16. ISTHE API AVAILABLE INYOUR
REGION?
Recently announced APIs may not be immediately or ever
available in your chosen region

17. HOW MUCH IS THIS GOING TO COST?

18. What is the charging basis for APIs?
Subscription-based
Transaction-based
CPU-based
Or something else?
COST

19. TAKE-AWAYS
Decide whether to use hybrid or preferred cloud
Who owns the data and where is it stored
Remember the language (limitations)
Check the API availability in your region
Estimate the life-cycle cost
TIPS FOR CHOOSING THE ULTIMATE AI PLATFORM

20. The Data Refinery Company
MERJA KAJAVA
@mkajava