Chinese and US IT giants are preparing for a decisive confrontation that can determine the future of artificial intelligence. Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu will compete with Amazon, Google and Microsoft for the right to provide other companies and developers of AI services online, through cloud services. At the conference EmTech in Beijing, the president of the technical committee of Alibaba, Wang Jian said that the cloud AI will become the main trend of the near future. "I am convinced that AI or machine learning will become the main consumer of applications in the cloud," he said.. "It will open a lot of development scenarios". The same opinion is shared by the scientific leader of Amazon Web Services Animashri Anandkumar. "Now carrying out experiments with AI requires huge computing resources," she says.. "The cloud is a way to democratize AI, because everyone can access its power". Anandkumar also hinted at Amazon's international ambitions: "Another aspect of the democratization of artificial intelligence is in its globalization. How will we give everyone the opportunity to develop in local markets and how will we provide quality support for representatives of other languages ??and cultures? "Cloud providers tend to outdo each other in increasingly sophisticated machine learning functions, since the rate in this race is the dominant position in an area that has every chance of becoming the next most important computer paradigm.

Original article: Cloud AI will be the main trend of the near future.