In some ways, Java was the key language for machine learning and AI before Python stole its crown. Important pieces of the data science ecosystem, like Apache Spark, started out in the Java universe.

Microsoft, contradicting beliefs of Java developers responding to a survey, said they don't need to learn AI, master machine learning, or switch to Python to build intelligent, production-ready ...

Created for the Web back in the 1990s, Java has become increasingly important to create the latest AI functionalities, says Azul.

The data science and machine learning technology space is undergoing rapid changes, fueled primarily by the wave of generative AI and—just in the last year—agentic AI systems and the large language ...