How to start

The visual editor of the AI4EU Experiments design studio allows building AI solutions, also called pipelines, in a quick and intuitive way. The studio provides the necessary tools for AI developers: a collection of building blocks for your solutions, a canvas to build on and visual guidance on how to connect the blocks. The AI4EU Experiments design studio is a part of the open source AI4EU Experiments platform, running on a customized Acumos instance, a platform and open source framework. The platform supports the development of AI solutions as portable, containerized micro-services. Users are free to choose any modelling language, toolkit, run-time infrastructure or cloud service. The studio is open to anyone, you just have to create a user account and sign in.

Collaborate

The design studio invites collaboration: You can create groups for working together on building AI pipelines; you can share individual building blocks as well as complete solutions with fellow platform users. For each shared resource, you are able to specify the terms of use in a commercial or non-commercial license profile. In this way, the AI4EU platform facilitates knowledge transfer. Businesses can share use cases or data and get support from European AI developers, AI experts can test and train their models with real world data, and researchers get inspiration from application scenarios.

Share your solutions

We invite users to create and upload their own building blocks to the AI resources catalogue and use these in the design studio as well. Anyone who has registered and created a user account for the AI4EU Experiments platform can upload resources, which are checked for quality by our experts and then published in the resources catalogue.

Once your solution is ready, we recommend onboarding it as a containerized micro-service, for example as docker container. It is not even necessary to upload the container; instead, you can provide a link referencing the storage facility, such as a docker registry. In that way, users can easily access the solution and deploy it on any execution environment.

Build hybrid AI-solutions

The AI4EU Experiments platform facilitates the creation of hybrid and modular AI solutions. When building your pipeline, you can choose from the re-usable, existing building blocks, for example AI models for object recognition, classification or segmentation. Hybrid solutions combine different AI technologies, for example classic Machine Learning with symbolic AI, reasoning or constraint programming. Combining two or more AI methods is beneficial in some application scenarios, especially when data sets are incomplete. Moreover, this approach facilitates the development of human-centred AI, which meets the highest standards with respect to reliability, explainability and trustworthiness.