The team here at insideAI News is deeply entrenched in following the big data ecosystem of companies from around the globe. We’re in close contact with most of the firms making waves in the technology areas of big data, data science, machine learning, AI and deep learning. Our in-box is filled each day with new announcements, commentaries, and insights about what’s driving the success of our industry so we’re in a unique position to publish our quarterly IMPACT 50 List of the most important movers and shakers in our industry. These companies have proven their relevance by the way they’re impacting the enterprise through leading edge products and services. We’re happy to publish this evolving list of the industry’s most impactful companies!
The selected companies come from our massive data set of vendors and industry metrics. Yes, we use machine learning to analyze the industry in a detailed manner to determine a ranking for this list. We’re using a custom RankBoost algorithm adapted specifically for the big data community along with a plethora of proprietary data sources. The rankings include an indicator for upward movement in the list and also for companies newly added.
If you’re part of a company that you feel is “impactful” in some critical way please contact us immediately to be added to our database in order to be considered for this list. Companies on the list exhibit technology leadership, strength of offering, proven innovation, positivity of message, quality perception in the enterprise, intensity and frequency of social media buzz, high profile of members of the C-suite, and in the case of public companies: positive financial indicators and stock price, and so much more!
IMPACT 50 LIST for Q4 2020 (in order of the most impactful)
#1 Google AI [NASDAQ: GOOGL] [+2]
#2 Intel AI – Harnessing silicon designed specifically for AI [NASDAQ: INTC] [+2]
#3 NVIDIA – Inventor of the GPU for AI workloads [NASD: NVDA]
#4 H2O.ai – Open Source Data Science and Machine Learning Platform
#5 DataRobot – Automated Machine Learning
#6 Domino Data Lab – Data Science Platform [+1]
#7 Amazon Web Services – Cloud based machine learning, database, container, and storage [+1]
#8 Microsoft AI [NASDAQ: MSFT]
#9 Snowflake – Cloud Enterprise Data Warehouse
#10 SAS – Analytics, BI, and data management [+2]
#11 Dell EMC [NYSE: DELL]
#12 HPE [NYSE: HPE] [+2]
#13 Teradata [NYSE: TDC]
#14 Kinetica – GPU Database
#15 Anaconda – Python Data Science Platform [+1]
#16 TigerGraph – Graph database and analytics platform [+1]
#17 Databricks – Unified analytics platform [+4]
#18 OmniSci– Massively accelerated analytics and data science [+6]
#19 Qlik – Data Analytics and Data Integration [+8]
#20 DataDirect Networks – AI and Deep Learning Storage
#21 Dremio – Data-as-a-Service platform [+2]
#22 Pure Storage [NYSE: PSTG]
#23 StreamSets – Where DevOps meets data integration [+1]
#24 TIBCO – Integration, analytics and event-processing software [+4]
#25 Guavus – Real-time big data analytics [+7]
#26 Neo4j – Graph database [+8]
#27 Cazena – Big data platform as a service [+2]
#28 Binah – Automatic data science engine
#29 Salesforce Einstein AI – Smart CRM assistant [+2]
#30 SkyMind – Enterprise deep learning [+6]
#31 Striim – Real-time data integration [+8]
#32 Kyndi – Explainable AI platform [+6]
#33 Cloudera– Enterprise scale analytics platform [NYSE: CLDR] [+9]
#34 Rulex – Explainable AI platform [+6]
#35 MongoDB – Cross-platform document-oriented NoSQL database [NASDAQ: MDB]
#36 Loop AI Labs – Cognitive computing
#37 Fiddler Labs – Explainable AI [+9]
#38 R2.ai – AutoML [+5]
#39 Brytlyt – GPU accelerated database
#40 Kaskada – End-to-end platform for feature engineering and feature serving [+5]
#41 causaLens – A machine that predicts the global economy in real-time NEW
#42 Neural Magic – No hardware AI, GPU speeds without GPUs [+5]
#43 Gigaspaces – In-memory computing platform
#44 cnvrg.io – Operating system for ML and AI NEW
#45 SQream – SQL GPU data warehouse NEW
#46 Diveplane – AI explainable, auditable, editable [+2]
#47 explainX.ai – Explainable AI for data scientists [+2]
#48 Verta – AL and ML deployment & operations for data science teams NEW
#49 Arize AI – Real-time observability for AI NEW
#50 Lightmatter – Photonic computing NEW
HONORABLE MENTION (newly expanded list in alphabetical order):
Actable AI – No-code data analytics with deep learning
Alegion – Data labeling platform
Allegro AI – DL/ML open source platform
Alluxio – Open source data orchestration for the cloud
AnotherBrain – Pioneers of organic AI
AtScale – Cloud OLAP for enterprise analytics
Beyond Limits – Explainable AI
Chatterbox Labs – AI model insights for trustworthy & fair AI NEW
Comet– Self-hosted and cloud-based meta machine learning platform
Confluent – Stream processing with Apache Kafka
Cubonacci – Machine learning lifecycle management NEW
DarwinAI – “AI Building AI” technology
DeepCube – Deep learning deployment on any device NEW
Deepgram – Speech recognition
deepsense.ai – AI solutions for business
Determined AI – Deep Learning training platform
Digitate – AIOps
Exasol– In-memory analytic database
Faktion – Operationalize AI NEW
GridGain – In-memory computing platform
Hailo – Specialized deep learning processor for edge devices
Iguazio– Data science platform NEW
InAccel – Application acceleration FPGA orchestrator
Intuition Machines – Deep learning and visual domain machine learning at scale
Lenses – DataOps platform for Apache Kafka and Kubernetes NEW
Logical Clocks AB – Hopsworks, an enterprise platform for AI
Megagon Labs – Experimental analytics and data management NEW
ModelOp – Scale and govern enterprise AI
Monte Carlo – Data reliability NEW
NetApp – Accelerated AI data pipelines
NtechLab – Augmenting intelligence
Obviously AI – Data science without code
OctoML – Deploy machine learning models
OpenAI – Ensures AGI benefits all of humanity
Ople – Predictive analytics for business users
Peltarion – Deep learning cloud platform
PredictHQ – Demand intelligence
Qeexo – AutoML at the Edge
Run:AI – Platform for AI virtualization and orchestration
SigOpt– Model tuning automation
Spell – ML and DL platform
Streamlit – Open-source app framework NEW
Tecton – Data platform for machine learning
Trifacta – Data wrangling tools
Truera – Model intelligence platform NEW
Yellowbrick – Data warehouse for hybrid and multi-cloud environments NEW
Contributed by Daniel D. Gutierrez, Managing Editor and Resident Data Scientist of insideAI News. In addition to being a tech journalist, Daniel also is a practicing data scientist, author, educator and sits on a number of advisory boards for various start-up companies.
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