Who should enter the ‘Best AI Platform’ category?

The “Best AI Platform” award celebrates exemplary AI platforms that provide robust, scalable, and versatile solutions for developers, businesses, and organizations to build, deploy, and manage AI applications effectively.

The availability of sophisticated AI platforms is critical for driving innovation, accelerating development cycles, and unlocking the full potential of AI technologies.

AI platforms offer essential capabilities for data processing, model training, deployment, and monitoring, enabling users to harness the power of AI to solve complex problems and achieve business objectives.

By abstracting away the complexities of AI development and deployment, cloud AI platforms democratize access to AI technologies, enabling organizations of all sizes to harness the power of artificial intelligence and drive digital transformation.

Best AI platform award

Example Use Cases

There are several key areas of an effective AI platform, with some entrants choosing to highlight particular areas of excellence across some of these examples.

Providing a comprehensive set of tools, services, and APIs for every stage of the AI development lifecycle. Tools or services enable data preparation, model training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.

This includes integrated development environments (IDEs), data labeling tools, model training frameworks, automated machine learning (AutoML) services, and model serving platforms.

AI speech recognition

Offering access to advanced AI capabilities, including pre-trained models. Could also could include AI libraries, and specialized APIs for computer vision, natural language processing (NLP), speech recognition, and other AI tasks.

This enables developers to leverage state-of-the-art AI algorithms and techniques without the need for extensive expertise in machine learning or data science.

AI developer community

Fostering a vibrant developer ecosystem with extensive documentation, tutorials, sample code, and developer communities. This helps support developers in building and deploying AI applications.

Includes support for popular programming languages, frameworks, and tools, as well as integrations with third-party services and libraries to extend platform functionality and interoperability.

End-to-end encryption

Security and compliance are paramount in AI development and deployment. Platforms can provide robust security features, encryption mechanisms, and access controls to protect sensitive data and ensure regulatory compliance.

Supports data encryption, identity and access management (IAM), audit logging, and compliance certifications such as SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR.

AI data center

Providing scalable and high-performance computing infrastructure to support the training and deployment of AI models at scale. Includes access to powerful GPUs, TPUs, and distributed computing resources to accelerate training and inference tasks.

Support for elastic scaling to handle fluctuating workloads and peak demand.

Hall of Fame: Previous Winners

Riverbed Logo

The Riverbed Platform delivers exceptional observability across IT infrastructure through AI-driven correlation and automation, representing a clear evolution beyond traditional monitoring tools. Its intelligent approach enhances efficiency, visibility, and control for IT operations and managed service providers alike. With a user-friendly interface and measurable performance improvements, The A.I. Awards recognizes Riverbed for redefining how organizations optimize their digital ecosystems.”

Judge, Jon Whittall

Best AI Platform 2025, Riverbed
EY Logo

The Judging panel at The A.I. Awards think EY Fabric stands out as a ground-breaking A.I. platform, revolutionizing digital transformation with over 500 reusable assets. Its GenAI capabilities have drastically reduced development time and empowered teams globally, setting new standards in enterprise technology innovation.”

Lead Judge, Maneet Bansal

Best AI Platform 2024, EY

Areas to Highlight in Your Submission

Judges score nominations across these five key areas:

  • Innovation: The features or technology that makes your AI platform unique - or transformed your market.

  • Impact: Evidence of the positive effect your AI platform has brought to your customers.

  • Scalability: How your platform grows or adapts to changing business needs, without significant upgrades or overhauls.

  • User Experience: How intuitive your AI platform is to use for users of varying roles or skill levels.

  • Relevance: What makes your solution a worthy winner in this particular category.

Although not formally scored, focus on these areas specific to this category, can help your nomination stand out:

Features

Strength and depth of features offered, such as data ingestion, model training, NLP or computer vision.

Flexibility

How the platform enables users to tailor AI solutions to meet specific requirements or business needs.

Support

The overall developer experience, documentation, tutorials, and support resources provided.

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Next Steps to Enter The A.I. Awards

To enter this AI Awards category, or any other category in The AI Awards, please follow these three simple steps:

  • Download the entry form. Open up the ‘AI Awards Simple Form’ document.

  • Complete the form. You only need to complete the form once, even if entering multiple A.I. Awards categories.

  • Submit your entry. Head to the ‘Submit Now’ section on our website, select ‘The A.I. Awards’ and the category/categories you are entering from the list, upload your form and any other materials you would like the judges to review, and process your fees.

The A.I. Awards is a program from The Cloud Awards. Since 2011, we’ve been helping organizations across the globe gain the recognition they deserve for market-leading innovation in the cloud computing and software sectors.

For a detailed breakdown of all the benefits you receive as an awards entrant as either a shortlistee, finalist or ultimate winner, please see our “Why Enter?” page. The many benefits are replicated across all international awards programs. If you have any questions about this category, please contact us.