Oracle Cloud's free AI services

 Whenever I need to play with any AI model for free or for fraction of cost in cloud, my first preference is Oracle cloud's free tier for AI. You can also take advantage of it. 

Oracle Cloud is offering a range of AI services for free, allowing developers and data scientists to experiment and innovate without incurring costs. These services provide a comprehensive platform for building, training, and deploying machine learning models, as well as performing advanced text, speech, and image analysis.

At the heart of Oracle Cloud's AI offerings is its Machine Learning service, which provides up to 4,700 free hours. This service enables users to build, train, deploy, and manage machine learning models collaboratively, with scalability and power. Additionally, users can leverage digital assistant capabilities for up to 51 hours, allowing them to interact with natural language conversations and automate tasks without managing multiple apps and websites.

Beyond machine learning, Oracle Cloud's AI services include OCI Language for sophisticated text analysis at scale, OCI Speech for automatic speech recognition, OCI Vision for deep-learning-based image analysis, and OCI Document Understanding for extracting text, tables, and data from documents via APIs and CLI tools. These services are available with tiered pricing based on use cases, but users can experiment with them for free within the specified limits.

To support AI and machine learning workloads, Oracle Cloud also provides free compute and storage resources. This includes two Always Free AMD-based compute VMs with 1/8 OCPU and 1 GB memory each, up to 4,500 hours of compute for OCI Kubernetes Engine, and up to 500 GB of storage for Docker-based OCI Container Registry.

With Oracle Cloud's free AI services, developers and data scientists can develop and deploy machine learning models, explore advanced AI capabilities, and build innovative applications without incurring costs. Whether you're a seasoned AI expert or just starting to explore the possibilities of artificial intelligence, Oracle Cloud's free AI services provide an ideal platform to get started. Sign up for an Oracle Cloud account today and start playing with AI.