Thus, you as an IoT manufacturer can take advantage of a trained algorithm instead of you developing one from scratch.
This puts you at a strict disadvantage--without your own IP, you basically are just a hardware manufacturer, and that race to the bottom is already pretty well finished due to Shenzhen and whatnot.
We are not implementing the algorithm in the hardware, it's on our servers, hardware is lightweight logic-wise, we use it for sensing or actuating, but the brain is in-house, therefore no risks with IPs.