Buhler insists that AI is not "magic," and that it should be demystified and measured. Buhler says companies can bake AI into their processes "horizontally." This article is part of a series about cloud technology called At Cloud Speed. If you ask Sequoia Capital partner and early-stage investor Konstantine Buhler about the role of artificial intelligence in cloud computing, his answer is unequivocal: "Cloud is going to become AI," he told Insider. "I mean, all of the cloud will be based on AI." Snowflake's $3.4 billion initial public offering and DataBricks' $1 billion funding round over the past year suggest big things ahead for AI in the cloud, and the industry is estimated at $40 billion and climbing. Major platforms like Amazon's AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud — as well as a host of startups — sell cloud-based tools and services for data labeling, automation, natural language processing, image recognition, and more, making it more affordable than ever before for firms to dabble in AI.