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Google's AutoML produces black box models that are only available over a network call. This services seems to produces downloadable models, and a notebook with Python code that creates the model. If that is the case, this is substantially better than GCP's offering.

AWS consistently releases similar products after GCP... but they are much more well-thought-out, as AWS has to support them indefinitely...

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I’m not sure why the other post was marked dead, but AutoML models can be exported - you can export them to TFLite format[0] and then run them on edge devices, such as a SparkFun Edge[1] or a Coral SoC / board.

[0]: https://cloud.google.com/vision/automl/docs/export-edge#expo... [1]: https://www.sparkfun.com/categories/tags/tensorflow

You can also export your model as a server within a Docker container:

https://cloud.google.com/automl-tables/docs/model-export

GCP supports training scikit / xgboost/ Tensorflow models and exporting them to Cloud Storage for use elsewhere.

More here: https://cloud.google.com/ml-engine/docs/scikit/custom-pipeli... https://cloud.google.com/ml-engine/docs/algorithms/xgboost-s... https://cloud.google.com/ml-engine/docs/tensorflow/getting-s...

Creating custom notebook containers is now also supported with AI Platform: https://cloud.google.com/ai-platform/notebooks/docs/custom-c...

Disclaimer: I work for Google.

Right, but your automl solution is using Tensorflow, no? (even for automl-tables).

I agree, it was good to see the option to generate Python code that can be reused, tweaked, etc.

Can we stop with the Google FUD re shutdowns? Browsing hacker news to any post about Google at any time in the past year you'll only ever see discussions on how "google shuts things down".

I get the trope, you want upvotes, it's an easy joke, and you can say it without real affliction at this point, but can we instead discuss the technical merit at hand — in this case AWS?

In this specific case, as noted by several other comments, you can also export GCP models.

Unfortunately what you consider to be a joke for upvotes, is something I see as a major business threat, and a downside for any future deal with google.

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