H2O . ai describes its mission as being the democratisation of AI and machine learning for everyone . With an open source platform , the company claims to be used by hundreds of thousands of data scientists in over 20,000 organisations across the world , in industries such as financial services , healthcare , retail and insurance .

The Mountain View , California-based business has raised over $ 150mn since its 2012 foundation , with its latest Series D in 2019 raising $ 72.5mn .

Microsoft ’ s AI platform integrates with its Azure cloud product , which it says is suitable for mission-critical solutions . Enabling features such as image analytics , speech comprehension and prediction , Microsoft ’ s solution claims to be useful for all developers , from data scientists to app developers and machine learning engineers .

Part of its offering is based around an ethical and responsible approach to AI , with systems to mitigate bias as well as ensure confidentiality and compliance .

100 June 2021