Depending upon how an application is combined with elastic infrastructure, the function of the cloud service could change from Infrastructure as a Service to Software as a Service.

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What Kimera is trying to do is offer a type of AI called neural networks on demand through a service as a software (SaaS) model.

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Beginning with the well-known Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) structure, Gartner added in a Business and Information Systems layer that includes brokerages, management and security.

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