C3 AI Ex Machina

C3 AI Ex Machina is a no-code AI software developed by C3.ai that aims to enable users to develop, scale, and act upon AI insights without the need for coding. According to the vendor, this software is designed to cater to companies of all sizes, from small businesses to large enterprises. It is intended for use by data scientists and analysts, business analysts, and IT professionals in various industries such as manufacturing, oil & gas, utilities, financial services, and defense & intelligence.

Key Features

Access Data Quickly and Easily: According to the vendor, C3 AI Ex Machina allows users to seamlessly access first- and third-party data from common datastores such as Snowflake, Salesforce, BigQuery, SAP, and Oracle. It supports various data formats and provides connectors to access data through a REST API.

Exploration & Visualization: The software provides users with the ability to profile and visualize data using a variety of chart types, including scatter, combo, and geospatial charts. The vendor also states that C3 AI Ex Machina supports integration with common BI tools for enhanced data exploration and reporting capabilities.

Prep, Wrangle & Analyze: According to the vendor, the software offers automated detection of missing, mismatched, and outlier data to ensure data quality. Users can unify, prep, and clean messy data using out-of-the-box functions such as join, filter, and search replace. It also provides users with the ability to perform simple and complex arithmetic operations and run advanced statistical tests on the data.

Develop and Deploy High-Performing AI Models: The AutoML feature of C3 AI Ex Machina is designed to automatically train high-performing models for regression, classification, or clustering problems. According to the vendor, the software handles data encoding, scaling, and imputation, and selects the best features to optimize model performance. It also automatically optimizes model hyperparameters based on the specific algorithm, data, and model scorer being used.

Model Validation & Interpretability: The vendor claims that users can evaluate comprehensive model metrics to verify and trust the performance of the trained models. C3 AI Ex Machina allows users to review feature importance to better understand and explain the outputs of the models.

MLOps & Model Management: According to the vendor, the software enables users to document, save, and deploy models on production data. It provides tools to track model performance after deployment and maintain version and lineage information for the models.

Action Models in Robust Business Apps: Users can generate predictions by running trained ML models on production data across various projects. The vendor states that C3 AI Ex Machina allows users to report on findings by sharing dashboards, charts, and tables with others in the organization. It supports scheduling projects to update and run automatically and generates alerts based on project outputs.

Scale and Govern Seamlessly: According to the vendor, C3 AI Ex Machina provides a distributed, cloud-native web application that allows users to work quickly and easily. It offers scalable workspaces ranging from 16GB to 1PB+ with just one click. The software also supports collaboration and security features, allowing users to share data, workflows, and ML models while maintaining access controls.