Booz Allen Spinout Modzy Aims to Bridge the ‘AI Valley of Death’

Artificial intelligence has been heralded as a game-changing technology for myriad sectors and applications. But deploying it effectively has proven to be continuously vexing.

According to Modzy CEO Josh Sullivan, a whopping 90% of machine learning models never even make it out of the lab into production, instead floundering in an “AI valley of death.” In his view, most commercial AI applications lack sufficient security, governance and other basics when first introduced.

Modzy is a platform for AI model operations and machine learning operations — aka ModelOps and MLOps — that launched within IT consulting company Booz Allen Hamilton in 2019, and was spun out into an independent company in December 2021.  Its goal is to solve implementation difficulties with AI, and help companies roll out AI applications efficiently and at scale, Sullivan told Technical.ly. The Vienna, Virginia-based company counts 29 employees and works with 25 partner companies, including NvidiaMicrosoftAmazon and Snowflake.

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