The New Stack Podcast

Azure CTO: Open Source is Key Component to Machine Learning in the Cloud, or On the Edge

Episode Summary

In this interview recorded at the Open Source Leadership Summit, Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and The New Stack’s Founder Alex Williams discussed how Microsoft builds on and contributes to open source for Azure’s AI and machine learning. As Russinovich – who had just given a keynote suggesting that AI owes its current strength to the combination of open source and the cloud – explained, “Fundamentally a lot of AI, machine learning and analytics is built on top of open source and it's a key part of our strategy to build with and use that open source, as well as to contribute back and to add to open source.” Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/oCeAq7I0Ofc

Episode Notes

In this interview recorded at the Open Source Leadership Summit, Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and The New Stack’s Founder Alex Williams discussed how Microsoft builds on and contributes to open source for Azure’s AI and machine learning. As Russinovich – who had just given a keynote suggesting that AI owes its current strength to the combination of open source and the cloud – explained, “Fundamentally a lot of AI, machine learning and analytics is built on top of open source and it's a key part of our strategy to build with and use that open source, as well as to contribute back and to add to open source.”

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/oCeAq7I0Ofc