Artificial intelligence as a service (AIaaS) is a cloud-based service that enables organizations to access artificial intelligence (AI). This lets them experiment with AI for various purposes without a large initial investment and with lower risk.

Many organizations find the upfront time and expense required to start a custom AI platform cost-prohibitive. An AIaaS platform, however, enables them to work with AI without these associated investments.

AIaaS provides out-of-the-box platforms that are easy to set up, making it easier to test various public cloud platforms, services and machine learning (ML) algorithms. AIaaS provides access to already trained and existing AI models through the cloud. Users can quickly scale resources up or down as needed. AIaaS platforms also support different data sources, meaning an organization can integrate the service with its data environment and manage model updates, infrastructure and security.