[alphagrep12345]

Interesting. I didn't know about scale. How would someone figure out that these tools are needed by so and so companies => let's provide APIs. I was of the idea that all the self driving startups have their own people solving these challenges. Why would anyone use scale?

[pwaivers]

It's really a matter of productivity. Creating training sets of data is a labor intensive process. It may not be worth the cost to do so, if they can outsource that work instead.