According to Kleinerman, Python with the proper security and governance will be a differentiator for Snowflake's platform. Rich libraries should also speed up the machine learning pipelines, he added.

For the first time in GitHub history, Python has overtaken JavaScript as the most popular programming language on the platform, with coders using the increasingly common language for AI development.

These are precisely the gaps Anaconda aims to close with its new Anaconda AI Platform, a unified system designed to bring structure, clarity, and control to the chaotic open-source AI development ...