2. • These artificial intelligence companies are advancing this
emerging tech through numerious variations on AI systems.
• AI has exploded in the past few years with dozens of startup
companies and major AI initatives by big name firms alike.
The New York Times estimates there are 45 AI
Startups working on chips alone, not to mention the dozens
of AI software firms working on machine learning, deep
learning and regular AI projects.
• AI has make into many, many uses and takes on a variety of
different forms, from self-driving automobiles to operating
Amazon’s Alexa via voice command to AI-powered server
configurations.
3. AI Brains
Amazon
Anki
Apple
Banjo
Cloud minds
Deepmind
Facebook
Google
icarbonX
4. IBM
Intel
Iris AI
Microsoft
Next IT
Nvidia
Open AI
Sales force
Sound HOUND
Twilio
Twitter
Visenze
X.ai
Zebra Medical vision
5. Based in California, AIBrain is an artificial intelligence
company that builds AI solutions for smartphones and
robotics applications. It three products: AICoRE, the AI agent,
iRSP, an intelligent robot software platform, and Futurable, a
future simulation AI game where every character is a fully
autonomous AI. The focus of their work is to develop artificial
intelligence infused with the human skill set of problem
solving, learning and memory.
6. The online retail giant offers both consumer and business-
oriented AI products and services. Amazon Echo brings
artificial intelligence into the home through the intelligent
voice server, Alexa. For AWS, the company has three primary
services: Lex, a business version of Alexa, Polly, which turns
text to speech, and Rekognition, an image recognition service.
7. Anki is dedicated to bringing consumer robotics into everyday
life through its Cozmo and Anki Overdrive products. Cozmo is
Anki’s flagship robot. Cozmo has been described as one of the
most sophisticated consumer robots to date due to its
emotional responses while Overdrive is a car racing game
complete with track.
8. Apple has acquired four artificial intelligence startups within
the past two years, demonstrating its big step into the
artificial intelligence sphere. One of them became the bases
for FaceID, a facial recognition security system. The bulk of
the company’s work is around Siri, Apple’s virtual assistant,
but as usual Apple is tight-lipped about plans. It recently
poached Google’s AI chief, which will undoubtedly help its
efforts and further the acrimony with Google.
9. Raising over $100 million last year, Banjo makes use of
artificial intelligence to comb through social media and
identify real-time events and situations that are important to
its partners. The startup was developed after the Boston
Marathon bombing in 2013 as a way for companies to analyze
social media to make better decisions, move faster, and
change the way they understand and interact with people all
over the world.
10. CloudMinds is developing what it calls an end-to-end cloud
intelligence system called Human Augmented Robotics
Intelligence platform for robots. CI is different from AI in that
it combines machines with humans rather than treating them
as separate entities. This allows the robot to be controlled by
human beings. It also offers the Mobile Intranet Cloud
Services provides information security for remote robot
control.
11. Not a product company, Deepmind is nonetheless a major
leader because of its role in AI research. Based in London, it
recruits heavily from Oxford and Cambridge, which are
leading the way in AI and ML research. Its research papers are
widely read as soon as they are published. Google (see below)
acquired DeepMind.
12. Facebook AI Research has four artificial intelligence labs
around the world all designed to give better understanding to
how people communicate. The company has also made four
recent AI-related.the most recent being Ozlo, to help
Messenger build out a more elaborate virtual assistant for
users.
13. Google, clearly a leader in AI, is on a massive AI acquisition to
access, having acquired 12 AI startups in four years. Google is
deeply invested in furthering artificial intelligence capabilities.
Rather than selling a product to the market, Google’s AI
efforts are all oriented toward improving its services. It has a
major software project in TensorFlow as well as its own
Tensor AI chip.
14. IBM has been a leader in the field of artificial intelligence
since the 1950s. Its efforts these days are around IBM
Watson, such as a AI-based cognitive service, AI software as a
service, and scale-out systems designed for delivering cloud-
based analytics and AI services. It too has been acquisitive,
purchasing three AI startups in recent years.
15. iCarbonX is a Chinese biotech startup which uses artificial
intelligence to provide personalized health analyses and
health index predictions. It has formed an formal agreement
with seven technology companies from around the world that
specialize in gathering different types of health-care data, and
will use algorithms to analyze genomic, physiological and
behavioral data and provide customized health and medical
advice.
16. Intel has conducted two major AI acquisitions, Nervana and
Movidius. Nervana is a deep learning processor
while Movidius is geared toward neural networks on
Windows systems. In addition to numerous acquisitions, Intel
has also invested in several AI startups, along with Microsoft.
Intel is also providing AI acceleration for Microsoft’s Bing
search engine via its Arria FPGA processors.
17. Iris AI helps researchers sort through scientific work and
research to find the relevant information, and as it is used, it
learns how to make better searchers. Since its launch,
120,000 people have tried the service, some becoming
regular users. It recently released Iris.ai 4.0, which adds the
Focus tool, an intelligent mechanism to refine and collate a
reading list of research literature, cutting out a huge amount
of manual effort.
18. Microsoft has a mix of consumer-facing and business/IT AI
projects. On the consumer side it has Cortana the digital
assistant that comes with Windows and now is available for
smartphones other than Windows Phone and the chatbot Zo
that talks like a teenager. On its Azure cloud service Microsoft
has AI services such as bot services, machine learning and
cognitive services.
19. Next IT is one of the original companies that pioneered
chatbots and has helped companies such as Alaska Airlines
and Amtrak to easily interact with customers to answer and
solve their problems. Their artificial intelligence capabilities
allow them to help organizations in a variety of industries
including healthcare and insurance.
20. Nvidia emergence as an AI leader was hardly overnight. It has
been promoting its CUDA GPU programming language for
nearly two decades. AI developers have come to see the value
in the GPU’s massively parallel processing design and
embraced Nvidia GPUs for machine learning and artificial
intelligence. One area Nvidia is making a big push is in self-
driving cars, but it is one of many efforts.
21. OpenAI has something of an open source spirit. It’s a research
firm that aims to promote and develop AI so as to benefit
humanity as a whole. The organization aims to "freely
collaborate" with other institutions and researchers by
making its patents and research open to the public. It has an
all-star staff of employees who publish widely-read research
papers and offer open source tools.
22. Over the past two years, Salesforce has acquired three AI
companies and recently announced Salesforce Einstein, their
artificial intelligence service. Their latest initiative, which
includes a team of 175 data scientists, uses machine learning
to help employees more efficiently perform tasks by
simplifying and speeding them up. In addition to Salesforce’s
own employees, Einstein will be available for customers who
can build their own applications.
23. SoundHound is known for its music-identification app Hound,
but it also has one of the most advanced and accurate
platforms for natural language processing for doing all kinds
of voice-to-text queries. Among those enterprises who have
implemented it are Samsung, Nvidia , Sony’s Xperia , Yelp, and
Uber.
24. Twilio is a cloud communications platform as a service
company that allows software developers to integrate text
messages, phone calls, and video calls into applications
through the use of various APIs. Twilio's services are accessed
over HTTP and are billed based on usage.
25. Twitter has invested significant funds into artificial
intelligence. They have acquired 4 AI companies to date. Their
latest acquisition of the AI tech startup, Magic Pony, cost
them a cool $150 million. A while back Twitter introduced a
so-called algorithmic timeline that ranked tweets based on
relevance instead of the usual reverse chronological order.
The company has also added AI to recommend certain tweets
in users' timelines.
26. ViSenze’s artificial intelligence technology works by
recommending visually similar items to users when shopping
online. ViSenze utilizes machine learning and computer vision
algorithms which process and analyze millions of visual
content. It uses visual sensing to find a match for an item
online, then offers filters for pricing, similarity and availability.
27. Geared for busy users, x.ai’s intelligence virtual assistant Amy
helps users schedule meetings. The concept is simple — if you
receive a meeting request but don’t have time to work out
logistics, you copy Amy onto the email and she handles it.
Through machine learning and natural language processing,
Amy schedules the best time and location for your meeting
based on your preferences and schedule.
28. Zebra Medical Systems is an Israeli company that applies deep
learning techniques to the field of radiology. It claims it can
predict multiple diseases with better-than-human accuracy by
examining a huge library of medical images and a specialized
examination technology. It recently moved its algorithms to
Google’s cloud to help it scale and offers $1 medical scans.