Introduction:

Gartner officially released the "Magic Quadrant for Cloud AI Developer Services". Alibaba Cloud, the only Chinese vendor to be positioned into the Challengers Quadrant. And it is also the third consecutive year that Alibaba Cloud has been recognized as a Challenger.

A Gartner Magic Quadrant is a culmination of research in a specific market, giving you a wide-angle view of the relative positions of the market’s competitors. By applying a graphical treatment and a uniform set of evaluation criteria, a Magic Quadrant helps you quickly ascertain how well technology providers are executing their stated visions and how well they are performing against Gartner market view.

Gartner defines the cloud AI developer services (CAIDS) as cloud-hosted or containerized services and products that enable software developers who are not data science expertsto use artificial intelligence (AI) models via APIs, software development kits (SDKs) or applications. Core capabilities include automated machine learning (autoML) including automated data preparation, automated feature engineering and automated modelbuilding, and model management and operationalization for language, vision and tabularuse cases. Optional and important complementary capabilities include AI code models and assistants.

Source: Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud AI Developer Services, Jim Scheibmeir, Arun Batchu, Mike Fang, 29 April 2024

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