Comment Google just acquired a no-code development startup (Score 1) 37
As someone who works in the natural language process space I've started to noticed that Google's sunsetted 'in beta 'til they're shutdown' apps are not actually being retired, but are rather being rolled into new, for-fee services. (See the formerly-free services that are now pay-per-API-call or pay-per-hour-of-compute-time on Google Cloud Platform, e.g., Google Maps API gecoding, etc.)
Google just bought a Portland-based startup, AppSheet – https://techcrunch.com/2020/01... – last week. AppSheet's sole product is an Android app which enables users to develop 'no code' machine learning workflows, e.g., make a 'hotdog not hotdog' image classifier without writing a line of code. It seems to me that when Google has hoovered up enough training data for its deep learning models by having tens of millions of users use a free application Google/Alphabet sunsets the free app and then a year later rolls out the same or similar functionality in a paid product.
Google just bought a Portland-based startup, AppSheet – https://techcrunch.com/2020/01... – last week. AppSheet's sole product is an Android app which enables users to develop 'no code' machine learning workflows, e.g., make a 'hotdog not hotdog' image classifier without writing a line of code. It seems to me that when Google has hoovered up enough training data for its deep learning models by having tens of millions of users use a free application Google/Alphabet sunsets the free app and then a year later rolls out the same or similar functionality in a paid product.
