Bonsai

Bonsai is an AI platform that was acquired by Microsoft in June 2018. The platform empowers developers to build, teach, and use intelligent systems, greatly simplifying the programming of control and optimization for creating more intelligent systems and business processes. Bonsai's fundamentally different approach results in far more accessible, efficient, and explainable models compared to alternatives. The platform, combined with rich simulation tools and reinforcement learning work in Microsoft Research, becomes the simplest and richest AI toolchain for building any kind of autonomous system for control and calibration tasks. Bonsai's toolchain will compose with Azure Machine Learning running on the Azure Cloud with GPUs and Brainwave, and models built with it will be deployed and managed in Azure IoT, giving Microsoft an end-to-end solution for building, operating, and enhancing “brains” for autonomous systems. The last investment in Bonsai was a Seed Round investment on 10 June 2020, with SV Angel as the investor.