Prior to Intento, Dr. Sapunov was a tech lead of the Yandex News service for more than 5 years, worked with IBM Watson Research Center as an invited data science expert and had data science/machine learning/deep learning and software engineering roles in other companies. Dr. Sapunov is an advisor of several well-established companies and startups.

Cloud-based AI transforms all kinds of enterprises. Deloitte predicts that by 2020, the penetration rate of enterprise software with AI built in, and cloud-based AI development services will reach an estimated 87 and 83 percent respectively.

Previously, these benefits have been predominantly accrued by tech giants with extensive financial resources, strong IT infrastructure, and highly-specialized human capital, but now they rapidly extend beyond AI’s pioneers to the wider enterprise.

Hybrid teams consisted of humans and cognitive services are becoming a reality. Yet the landscape of cloud cognitive services is very complex, and the process of choosing and using a cloud AI is more like hiring humans than like legacy SaaS buying process.