Who founded H2O.ai and where is it based?

H2O.ai was founded in 2012 by Sri Ambati, who serves as CEO. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Is H2O.ai open source?

Yes. H2O.ai is community-powered and maintains widely used open-source projects, including the H2O-3 machine learning platform, alongside its commercial enterprise products.

More than 20,000 organizations and a community of over 2 million data scientists build on H2O, including roughly half of the Fortune 500.

What does “AI for Good” mean?

AI for Good is H2O.ai’s mission to point AI at the hardest problems facing people and the planet, from earlier medical diagnosis and wildfire response to climate science and wildlife conservation.

About us

AI should be like water.

Powerful. Essential. Adaptive. Transparent.

Sri Ambati, Founder & CEO, H2O.ai

About H2O.ai

We believe in AI for Good. We point math at the hardest problems facing people and the planet, from cancer to climate change, and keep it open so it belongs to everyone.

Water gives life. It grows the crops, keeps the cities running, and makes the world as we know it possible. Without it, life stops. AI is becoming the same for every organization: nothing grows without it.

That is also what makes it dangerous. Nations have gone to war over water, because whoever controls it controls everyone downstream.

But we believe AI needs to be open and sovereign, owned by everyone, not rationed by a few.

AI for Good in action

Democratizing healthGood care shouldn’t depend on where you’re born or what you can pay. We turn data into earlier diagnosis and smarter clinical decisions.

Fighting wildfiresWildfires cost $350 billion a year. The H2O Wildfire Challenge put AI in first responders’ hands to predict fire behavior and protect communities, as NBC Bay Area reported.

A lab scientist holding a biohazard sample

Pandemic responseWhen COVID-19 overwhelmed health systems, our pandemic response matched scarce oxygen and supplies to where they were needed most.

Aerial view of a neighborhood after a hurricane

Fighting climate changeClimate is the hardest prediction problem there is. With atmospheric physicists, we bring AI to climate science, sharpening the models the world depends on.

Protecting wildlifeEndangered species vanish faster than we can count them. With Wildbook, computer vision tracks individual animals to help conservationists protect them.

Democratizing educationTalent shouldn’t be gated by zip code. Through AI4ALL we back the mentorship that opens AI to high-school students from underrepresented backgrounds.

Our Principles

Four principles guide how we build AI, so it stays accessible, accountable, and trustworthy.

01FlexibleAI should bend to your world, not the other way around. It runs on whatever infrastructure and budget you have.
02AccountablePeople stay in the loop, always. Real expertise oversees every model, and compliance is documented in the open, not buried.
03InclusiveMany voices build better AI. Diverse perspectives catch bias and make sure it benefits everyone it’s built for.
04ResponsibleTrust comes first. Every model is built to be explained, so you can see how it works and stand behind what it predicts.

Our Values

These are the traits we value most in each other, and look for in every person we hire. They aren’t a poster on the wall. They’re who we are when the work is hard, how we show up for the people who depend on us, and why this still feels like a movement, not just a company.

Do GoodChase impact on society and the world, not profit or vanity. Do the right thing when no one’s watching, even when it’s harder.
Customer EmpathyLive the customer’s problem, don’t just ship features at them. Stay in the room until it works in production, not just the demo.
Community PoweredChoose community over closed, always. Build in the open, give more than you take, and lift everyone around you as you go.
Freedom to InnovateChase the breakthrough, not the incremental. Question the default, try the thing that might not work, and never wait for permission.

CareersWe’re always looking for motivated people to join the journey. Explore open roles across engineering, research, sales and marketing.Learn more TeamH2O is built by a rare bench of makers. Meet our leadership, Kaggle Grandmasters, fellows, and board of directors.View the team Brand kitOur logo, colors, and typefaces, with the files to download.View the brand kit

Frequently asked questions

H2O.ai builds AI for organizations, both generative AI agents and predictive models, that they can deploy, govern, and own end to end on their own infrastructure. Its platform spans open-source machine learning, automated model building (AutoML), and enterprise generative AI.

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