Crowdsourced AI models to empower people to build with AI

Hello Product Hunt 👋🏻  Sachin from Volant AI here. Super excited to launch this! Big thanks to @chrismessina for the hunt 🙏🏻

I’ve always been a big believer in leveling out the “playing field”. Over the past year (wrapping up college at Zoom University😥), I came increasingly face-to-face with problems in democratizing AI. It is difficult for Small & Medium-sized Businesses (and other small parties) to reconcile the incredible time and money cost of AI model development. These costs may come from things like compute🖥️ (AWS ain’t cheap) or expertise 🧠(ideating models can be difficult cognitively and AI consultants break the bank).

Over the past decade, learning how to build AI models has been increasingly democratized whether it's through MOOCs or competing in Kaggle, so much so, that there's an incredibly large community of data scientists who can be utilized like never before.

Introducing Volant AI: the App Store of AI🚀🚀🚀!

We're building a marketplace of crowdsourced AI models with a dashboard for sellers to easily be able to upload and sell. We're also empowering anyone to build with AI, whether they are working on a personal project, competing in kaggle OR enhancing their company's products through the following:

🛒Marketplace: We've just launched (50+ waitlist, 10+ sellers) so our repository will increase as more and more sellers get onboarded. Feel free to check out our FAANG stock prediction models ready for buying and use now!

💰Easy to sell models: We’re especially focused on making the selling experience as straightforward as possible (it takes minutes).

🔍Model-Selection-as-a-Service: Search models by name or tags for more relevance. Objectively see which model performs better based on how it works with the data.

🧶Low-code, flexible usage/delivery: When you buy a model from our marketplace, you can pull a docker image and run a model as an API endpoint. Easy to wrap and run on-prem or in the cloud.

📈 📈 📈 We're a two-sided marketplace, so we're hoping to grow our sellers and see more buyers for our marketplace. If you have deep learning experience (Keras,Pytorch,Tensorflow…), join our waitlist to sell now! If you're looking to utilize AI models now, or in the future, join our waitlist to get early access to high-quality models and save your time and money.

This is our first version and I'm excited to see what models are built and how you utilize AI to benefit your business/projects! Feel free to share thoughts/concerns/feedback in the comments. Any support is appreciated!

P.S. You may be wondering, what if I have a specific use case for which I need a unique model that the Volant AI marketplace does not have? All I’ll say for now is that, given some data and your metrics, we’ll leverage our seller corp to get you what you need. Stay tuned (and join our waitlist!) for details;)