Introducing Gradient Ventures

Re:Introducing Gradient Ventures by mattnewton on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @09:35PM (#14749531)

Honestly, if the answer to that is that they invest in you and you use their money to buy google cloud ml services, and you go out and find customers, that doesn't sound bad.

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Re:Introducing Gradient Ventures by claytonjy on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @10:34PM (#14749744)

I guess a big question here is, what does "AI company" mean to Gradient Ventures?

If it's "yet another company spewing buzzwords all over", ML-as-a-service might work, but I'm hoping it's more "adapting cutting edge AI research to do things people will pay for", which requires a hell of a lot more engineering and can't be done by just shoving their data into someone else's black box.

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Re:Introducing Gradient Ventures by doppenhe on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @11:39PM (#14749991)

there is nothing that requires you to use GCP, Google ML services or anything along those lines. This was a surprise but true.

source: i am part of the Algorithmia team.

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Re:Introducing Gradient Ventures by mattnewton on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @11:01AM (#14753095)

Right, I just meant in response to GP that said they didn't want buisinesses that wanted/needed much of their ML built for them. Google might be okay with that too.

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