How is this better than using other frameworks such as scikit learn? it is hard to tell what extra value they provide from the copy on their website.
I'm always extremely skeptical of such initiatives, because ML is not a magical black box where you put your data in one end and you get results on the other end. Automating the trivial parts of ML, ie. providing an API to a ML library, is a week-end project, but that in itself is useless. If you don't automate the hard parts of ML, such as feature engineering, then you're not providing any value at all.
and vowpal wabbit https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit/wiki