These days, you don’t have to be an expert in natural-language processing or computer vision to make an app that can automatically summarize text or recognize faces. You just have to find the right algorithm.
Seattle startup Algorithmia is making both finding and using algorithms easier with a marketplace that unites algorithm creators and the software developers who need them. The company is opening its marketplace to the general public for a preview beginning Thursday with more than 800 algorithms that can parse huge data sets; find, analyze, and recommend content; run combinatorial auctions; and much more.
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