[kkielhofner]

Agreed.

The current AI hype cycle has driven companies to slap AI somewhere in their offering so they can call themselves an AI company - even if it's an API key and an intern spending half a day with an API wrapper.

Gatekeeping is always risky but in my mind if you're not at least touching an ML framework you're not an "AI company" - which is already IMO a pretty low bar. That said it starts to get really hazy when you look at things like SageMaker and other offerings where you're doing abstracted model development or substantial amounts of fine-tuning/training on a custom dataset, etc.