I’m proud and excited to share that Kaggle is joining Google Cloud!
Seven years ago, we launched our first ever competition, to predict the voting patterns for the Eurovision Song Contest. It was won by Jure Zbontar, who beat 21 teams to win the $1000 prize.
Since then, the Kaggle community has used machine learning to grade high school essays, diagnose heart failure and increase the discovery significance of the Higgs Boson. Geoff Hinton and George Dahl showed the power of deep neural networks on a Merck competition and Tianqi Chen used Kaggle Kernels to introduce the community to XGBoost. Kaggle profiles have become a well recognized credential, with community members landing jobs at companies ranging from DeepMind to Walmart. Last August, we launched an open data platform, where the community has already shared hundreds of high quality data sets. We’ve accomplished a lot together!
The Kaggle team will remain together and will continue Kaggle as a distinct brand within Google Cloud. We will continue to grow our competitions and open data platforms, and we will remain open to all data scientists, companies, techniques and technologies. Kaggle Kernels will continue to support a diverse ecosystem of machine learning libraries and packages supported by Google as well as those outside of Google’s toolkit.
Kaggle joining Google will allow us to achieve even more. It combines the world’s largest data science community with the world’s most powerful machine learning cloud. It’s also an exciting opportunity to combine forces with ImageNet creators Fei-Fei Li and Jia Li.
Making Google Cloud technology available to our community will allow us to offer access to powerful infrastructure, scalable training and deployment services and the ability to store and query large data sets.
Thank you all for the role you have played in building this great community! I look forward to what we’re going to achieve together in the months and years ahead.
- Anthony Goldbloom, CEO