Cognitive solutions have developed beyond traditional AI capabilities into machine thinking, and startups can now leverage cognitive technologies like IBM Watson through the cloud to offer better solutions to their customers.

IBM’s Watson can digest and reason through information, and come up with solutions. This allows startups to offer their customers APIs like natural language processing without the obstacles that prevent easy, robust and responsive user experiences.

Placing this advanced technology in the cloud provides the resources that cognitive needs to function smoothly, and for it to be accessible through platforms including IBM Bluemix.

For more on this, here’s part of our recent interview with IBM’s Nevil Knupp, Vice President of Cloud, IBM Canada.

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