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CB-Insights - The State of Artificial Intelligence
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A FEW OF OUR HAPPY CUSTOMERS
The most publicly reference-able customers of anyone in the industry
No more unwieldy
spreadsheets, email
chains, and PowerPoint.
Knowledge management
done right.
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THE TECH INDUSTRY’S AI REVOLUTION
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‘AI IS THE NEW ELECTRICITY’
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IBM WATSON
EXPANDS ITS
REACH
From Watson health cloud to IoT
solutions, IBM is quickly expanding
the reach and adoption of its
cognitive computing platform across
multiple industries.
“Alexa, ask My Chef “Alexa, ask Uber to “Alexa, ask Fitbit how
what’s expiring.” request a ride.” I slept last night.
“Alexa, what’s in the “Alexa, ask the bartender, “Alexa, tell Tide I have
news?” what's in a Tom Collins?” a juice stain.”
200+ 30+ 11
Acquisitions M&A deals in Acquisitions by
since 2012 Q1’17 Google
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MARRYING PATENTS WITH CB INSIGHTS DATA
Analysis of patents provides forward-looking insight into corporate
product strategy and innovation, as well as where technology innovation is
happening and going.
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AI PATENTS OF MICROSOFT,
GOOGLE, AMAZON, FB, APPLE
as of 12/12/2016
Note: The patent filing process involves a significant time-lag before the publishing of patent applications. This
delay can range from several months to over two years, meaning that records prior to 2013 are likely complete at Facebook’s patent for “predicting labels using deep
the time of analysis, but there may be applications from 2014 on that have yet to be published.
learning model”
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MEDIA TRENDS: AI VS BIG DATA The Battle For Top AI Talent Only
Gets Tougher From Here
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Why now?
MACRO TRENDS, RECENT ADVANCES
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Big Data + Processing Power =
New Age for
Artificial Intelligence
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"Deep learning is almost like the brain... It's
unreasonably effective. You can teach it to do
almost anything. But it had a huge handicap: It
needs a massive amount of computation. And
there we were with the GPU, a computing model
almost ideal for deep learning."
Jen-Hsun Huang
CEO, NVidia
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HORSEPOWER FOR AI:
NVIDIA GPU’S
DOMINATE MARKET
NVidia GPUs, which initially targeted the gaming
industry, are now widely used for training deep
neural networks.
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STARTUPS RIDING THE DEEP LEARNING WAVE
To name a few, Captricity, which
extracts information from hand-
written data, raised $49M in equity
funding from investors including
Social Capital and New York Life
Insurance Company. Teradeep
received funding in Q1’16 from the
corporate venture arm of XILINX to
make programmable integrated
circuits. Healthcare startups here
include IBM-backed precision
medicine startup Pathway
Genomics and diagnostics
company Enlitic.
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OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
ACCELERATES RESEARCH
Google open sourced its TensorFlow machine
learning library in 2015, and reportedly “more
than 480 people have contributed directly to
TensorFlow” since then. Other libraries include
Deeplearning4J from startup Skymind and
Microsoft’s Cognitive Toolkit.
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RECENT ADVANCES IN AI
ELON MUSK LAUNCHES NEURALINK, A
VENTURE TO MERGE THE HUMAN
BRAIN WITH AI
March 27, 2017
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“Despite these astonishing
advances, we are a long way
from machines that are as
intelligent as humans—or even
rats. So far, we’ve seen only 5%
of what AI can do.”
Yann LeCun
Director of research, Facebook
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Where are we at?
AI TODAY, STARTUP TRENDS, APPLICATIONS
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A few AI applications today
A LOT OF NUMBER VISION
LANGUAGE
CRUNCHING PROCESSING
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WHAT WE DEFINE AS “AI” IN THIS REPORT:
➢ This report contains an analysis of over 1,600 private companies found using various
keywords related to artificial intelligence technologies in the CB Insights database.
➢ Our AI category includes startups developing industry agnostic AI solutions like advanced
vision and language processing systems, as well as startups using predictive algorithms to
solve problems in specific industries, like healthcare, cybersecurity, commerce, and finance.
The applications range from e-commerce search engines and chatbots for CRM to deep
learning-based cybersecurity solutions and machine learning-assisted medical imaging and
diagnostics.
➢ Our funding analysis excludes on-demand taxi service, AR/VR and hardware-focused
robotics startups (robotics is included as a separate section at the end of this report). It
includes private companies working on driverless cars as well as robotic software startups.
Only equity funding rounds and convertible notes are included in funding charts.
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AI Equity Funding Since 2012:
$14.9 BILLION
across
2250 DEALS
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: ANNUAL FUNDING HISTORY DEALS CONTINUE TO
2012-2016 BREAK PREVIOUS
RECORDS
Deals to AI startups
increased 4.6x in the last
5 years, from 150 in 2012
to 698 in 2016.
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: QUARTERLY FUNDING Q1’17 MOST ACTIVE
Q1’12-Q1’17 (as of 3/23/2017) QUARTER FOR AI
STARTUPS
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: GLOBAL DEAL SHARE INDUSTRY STILL
2012-2016 NASCENT, SEED DEALS
DOMINATE
Early-stage deals
dominated across the
years, accounting for
67% or more of the total
deal share. Mid and late-
state deals have
remained fairly constant
during this period. Some
of the late-stage
companies that raised
recently include Lattice
Engines, SoundHound
and NIO.
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RECENT $100M+ MEGA-ROUNDS
2016
$154M $130M
$175M
$200M $180M
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UNICORNS USING AI ALGORITHMS ACROSS INDUSTRIES
UNICORN AI FOCUS UNICORN AI FOCUS
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MOST WELL-FUNDED
US STARTUPS IN EACH
STATE USING AI
ALGORITHMS
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NUMBER OF ACTIVE INVESTORS BY TYPE
VC INVESTORS CORPORATE INVESTORS PE INVESTORS ASSET/INVESTMENT MGT
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TOP VC INVESTORS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
RANK INVESTOR RANK INVESTOR
1 5
1 7
3 8
4 8
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CB Insights unveiled the AI 100—a list of 100 of
the most promising private companies applying
artificial intelligence algorithms across
industries, from healthcare to auto to fintech—at
the Innovation Summit in January 2017.
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100 AI STARTUPS YOU BETTER KNOW
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AI HEATMAP: DEALS DISTRIBUTION BY CATEGORY
Q1'12-Q1'17 (as of 3/23/17)
CATEGORY Q1'12 Q2'12 Q3'12 Q4'12 Q1'13 Q2'13 Q3'13 Q4'13 Q1'14 Q2'14 Q3'14 Q4'14 Q1'15 Q2'15 Q3'15 Q4'15 Q1'16 Q2'16 Q3'16 Q4'16 Q1'17
Healthcare
Horizontal Applications
Commerce
Ad & Marketing
IoT/IIoT
Business Intelligence & Analytics
Fintech & Insurance
Cybersecurity
Sales & CRM
Auto tech
Personal Assistants
Education
HR Tech
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KEY TAKEAWAYS
Health and wellness is the hottest area of investment in AI, with 270
HEALTHCARE deals going to the category since 2012.
Sales & CRM deals nearly doubled in 2016 from the previous year,
OTHER and is the third highest category for deals so far in Q1’17. The pace
of cybersecurity deals picked up in Q1’17 after a slowdown in 2016.
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UNDERSTANDING AI AND MACHINE LEARNING
The definitions of what an AI system is and what it’s capable of accomplishing have been constantly
changing over the years with corresponding changes in technological capabilities. Access to massive
amounts of data and advanced processing capabilities have ushered in a new era of AI applications.
Machine learning is a set of algorithms used to make a system “artificially intelligent,” enabling it to recognize
patterns from large datasets and apply the findings to new data.
Machine learning can be used to train computers to understand and analyze human language, including text
and voice (Natural Language Processing or NLP), to identify and analyze images (image processing and
computer vision), or for time series analysis, among other things. Deep learning algorithms, a subset of
machine learning, uses several layers of neural networks (processes that mimic the human brain).
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SPOTLIGHT: AI IN HEALTHCARE, COMMERCE,
AD & MARKETING, IOT
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Companies leveraging machine learning algorithms to reduce drug discovery
times, provide virtual assistance to patients, and improve the accuracy of
HEALTHCARE &
medical imaging and diagnostic procedures, among other things.
WELLNESS
COMMERCE
AD & MARKETING
IOT/IIOT
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AI IN HEALTHCARE & WELLNESS
ANNUALFUNDING
ANNUAL FUNDINGHISTORY
HISTORY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION
DEALS OUTSIDE THE UNITEDOF DEALS
STATES
Healthcare and wellness received the highest aggregate deals since 2012 73% of the deals since 2012 went to US startups, followed by United Kingdom
compared to other AI categories. Deals and funding hit a 5-year-high in 2016. (9.2%) and Israel (3.7%). However, the share of non-US deals reached a five-
The top rounds last year went to unicorn companies Flatiron Health ($175M year-high in 2016 at 35%, compared 24% or less in previous years. So far this
Series C) and iCarbonX ($154M Series A). So far this year, as of 3/22/17, year, over 45% of the deals have gone to startups outside the United States, to
healthcare & wellness startups have raised over $130M across 22 deals, countries including the United Kingdom, India, Netherlands, Finland, and Israel.
including a $65M Series A round raised by cancer diagnosis startup Freenome.
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106 AI STARTUPS
TRANSFORMING
HEALTHCARE
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RANK INVESTOR SELECT INVESTMENTS
TOP INVESTORS IN
HEALTHCARE AI
1
Freenome, Atomwise, CloudMedX, Bay Labs, STARTUPS
Enlitic, Recursion Pharmaceuticals
2012-2017
2
Zebra Medical Vision, Atomwise, Bay Labs,
Lumiata, Ginger.io
(as of 3/23/17)
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• Momentum – Uses signals ranging from hiring growth, exec turnover, news volume IDENTIFYING HIGH-
and sentiment, customer & partner signings, product development velocity, web
traffic, mobile app data, and social media chatter.
MOMENTUM STARTUPS
• Market – Uses Market Mosaic to assess health of industry the company competes in. USING MOSAIC
• Money – Financial strength and viability of company based on burn rate, financing
history, and investor quality. Mosaic is a quantitative
framework to
algorithmically measure
the overall health and
growth potential of
private companies.
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EARLY-STAGE COMPANIES TO WATCH
$10.8M/ Series A Flare Capital Partners, GE Ventures, Greycroft Early detection of chronic
760
Feb’17 Partners, Manatt Venture Fund diseases
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HEALTHCARE &
WELLNESS
AD & MARKETING
IOT/IIOT
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“If you don’t have an AI
strategy, you are going to die
in the world that’s coming.”
Devin Wenig
CEO, eBay
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RETAIL AI IN THE NEWS
GOOGLE HOME WORKS WITH EBAY'S
SHOPBOT TO PRICE YOUR STUFF
March 9, 2017
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AI IN COMMERCE
ANNUALFUNDING
ANNUAL FUNDINGHISTORY
HISTORY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION
DEALS OUTSIDE THE UNITEDOF DEALS
STATES
Nearly 200 deals went to startups in this category from 2012-16. Deals and Around 42% of the deals have gone to commerce startups outside the United
funding reached a 5-year-high in 2016, with the top rounds going to California- States since 2012. Startups in France accounted for 6.5% of the deal share,
based BloomReach ($56M Series D round) and Singapore-based Trax Image followed by Canada (5.5%) and India (5.5%). So far in Q1’17, more than half the
Recognition ($40M Series C round). So far in 2017, startups have raised over deals have gone to countries including South Korea, Singapore, France, United
$100M across 21 deals. The top round in Q1’17 was a $20M Series D round to Kingdom, Canada, Israel, Poland and The Netherlands.
previously-mentioned Trax Image Recognition.
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40+ AI STARTUPS
TARGETING RETAIL IN
ONE INFOGRAPHIC
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TOP VC INVESTORS IN
AI COMMERCE
RANK INVESTOR SELECT INVESTMENTS
STARTUPS
Modsy, Personali, InsightsOne
1 2012-2017 YTD
(as of 3/23/17)
Reflektion, SmarterHQ, BloomReach
1
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EARLY-STAGE COMPANIES TO WATCH
MOSAIC LAST ROUND/
COMPANY SELECT INVESTORS AREA OF FOCUS
(OUT OF 1000) DATE
$0.44M/ Seed
720 Unilazer Ventures
Dec’16 Chatbot SDK for commerce
$1.74M/ Series A Robert Bosch Venture Capital, In-store analytics and shopper
710 Sep’16 behavior
Spintop Ventures
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HEALTHCARE &
WELLNESS
COMMERCE
IOT/IIOT
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‘1:1 MARKETING’ WITH AI
“Specifically, predictive marketers will
leverage AI computing power to
process immense amounts of data to
inform marketing campaigns so they
can create unique and customize
experiences at the individual level in
near real time--finally delivering on the
promise of 1:1 marketing that we have
been talking about for 20 years.”
Randy Wootton
CEO, Rocket Fuel
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AI IN ADVERTISING & MARKETING
ANNUALFUNDING
ANNUAL FUNDINGHISTORY
HISTORY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION
DEALS OUTSIDE THE UNITEDOF DEALS
STATES
Deals to advertising and marketing startups using artificial intelligence Startups in the United States accounted for over 90% of the deals in 2012. But
algorithms peaked in 2015 at 50, before dropping slightly to 47 in 2016. The the numbers fluctuated in the following years, before dropping to 68% in 2015,
top rounds last year were raised by Datorama ($32M Series C) and Persado and increasing slightly to 73% in 2016. Overall, 4.7% of the deals went to
($30M Series C). So far in Q1’17, as of 3/21/17, investors poured in $11.5M startups in Israel, followed by United Kingdom (2.6%) and Singapore (2.1%).
across 12 deals, including 6 seed rounds to startups like Uru (video
advertising) and Ematic Solutions (e-mail marketing).
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TOP INVESTORS IN AI
COMMERCE STARTUPS
2012-2017
RANK INVESTOR SELECT INVESTMENTS
(as of 3/23/17)
SalesPredict, Totango, Taboola
1
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EARLY-STAGE COMPANIES TO WATCH
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HEALTHCARE &
WELLNESS
COMMERCE
AD & MARKETING
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AI IN IOT & INDUSTRIAL IOT
ANNUALFUNDING
ANNUAL FUNDINGHISTORY
HISTORY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION
DEALS OUTSIDE THE UNITEDOF DEALS
STATES
Funding to AI in IoT and industrial IoT doubled in 2016 to $423M from $211 73% of the deals in the last years went to startups in the United States But US
the previous year. The top round was a $100M private equity round raised deal share have bene dropping over the years, from 83% in 2012 to 69% in
by IIoT startup Stem (focused on the energy industry), followed by a $70M 2016. In Q1’17, deals have gone to countries including Sweden, Australia,
Series D round raised by C3 IoT. Deals to the AI-IoT space grew 9x, from 6 in France, and India.
2012 to 53 in 2016.
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TOP INVESTORS IN AI
COMMERCE STARTUPS
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EARLY-STAGE COMPANIES TO WATCH
$11M/ Series B AXA Strategic Ventures, Lenovo Group, Liberty Personalization platform for
800
Jan’16 Media Corporation, Pitango Venture Capital IoT devices
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HORIZONTAL APPLICATIONS
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AI HORIZONTAL APPLICATIONS: FUNDING HISTORY INDUSTRY AGNOSTIC
2012-2016 APPLICATIONS GAIN
MOMENTUM IN 2016
Deals to startups
developing AI solutions
for different verticals
dropped in 2015, but
made a come back in
2016.
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Horizontal AI: 2015-16 Startup Landscape
TEXT ANALYTICS/ VISION CONVERSATIONAL OTHER
SEARCH ENGINE AI/ BOT PLATFORMS
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ROBOTICS: HARDWARE MEETS AI SOFTWARE
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“Robots are not going to replace
humans, they are going to make
their jobs much more humane.
Difficult, demeaning, demanding,
dangerous, dull – these are the
jobs robots will be taking.”
Sabine Hauert
Co-founder, Robohub.org
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Robotics Funding Since 2012:
$3 BILLION
across
488 DEALS
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ROBOTICS DEALS BY CATEGORY INTEREST SOARS IN
2012-2016 ENTERPRISE ROBOTS
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AUTOMATING THE
ENTERPRISE
The startups on the market
map are building robots for
industrial automation,
manufacturing, warehouse
automation, and restaurant
services, among other
tasks.
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50+ CONSUMER
ROBOTS HELPING TO
CLEAN, COOK, AND
MORE
The startups on the market
map are building robots for
industrial automation,
manufacturing, warehouse
automation, and restaurant
services, among other
tasks.
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Emerging applications
GAMING, REG TECH, EXPERT AUTOMATION,
AND MORE
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EMERGING AI APPLICATIONS: DEALS DISTRIBUTION BY CATEGORY
Q1'12-Q1'17 (as of 3/23/17)
CATEGORY Q1'12 Q2'12 Q3'12 Q4'12 Q1'13 Q2'13 Q3'13 Q4'13 Q1'14 Q2'14 Q3'14 Q4'14 Q1'15 Q2'15 Q3'15 Q4'15 Q1'16 Q2'16 Q3'16 Q4'16 Q1'17
Healthcare
Horizontal Applications
Commerce
Ad & Marketing
IoT/IIoT
Business Intelligence & Analytics
Fintech & Insurance
Cybersecurity
Sales & CRM
Auto tech
Personal Assistants
Education
HR Tech
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PERFORMANCE ANALYTICS FOR GAMERS
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AI ASSISTED PAPER GRADING
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TRAVEL SMART: DEMAND FORECASTING
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REDUCING TIME ON LEGAL WORK
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REG TECH: IDENTITY VERIFICATION
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EVEN THE PHOTO FRAMES IN YOUR HOME
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Where are we headed?
THE ‘ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE’ DEBATE
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Artificial General Intelligence or General AI is
the concept of an AI system with human-level
intelligence and cognitive abilities that can
perform a broad range of tasks and apply that
knowledge to solve unfamiliar problems
without being trained to do so.
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ARE WE GETTING THERE? MAYBE.
SELECT INVESTORS
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KINDRED’S PATENT ON
ROBOTIC APPARATUS
Kindred Systems’ patent filing activity started
recently, with 2 patents filed in 2016 titled
“facilitating device control” and “methods of self-
preservation of robotic apparatus.”
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STARTUPS WORKING ON GENERAL AI: VICARIOUS
FUNDING HISTORY
SELECT INVESTORS
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VICARIOUS FOCUSES ON CORTICAL NETWORKS
Vicarious Systems has applied for around 6 patents since 2013, on topics like object recognition
using recursive cortical networks .
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STARTUPS WORKING ON GENERAL AI: NUMENTA
FUNDING HISTORY
SELECT INVESTORS
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NUMENTA’S PATENT APPLICATION ACTIVITY
Numenta, which is attempting to “reverse engineer the neocortex,” has applied for over 40 patents
since 2005.
Note: The patent filing process involves a significant time-lag before the publishing of patent applications. This
delay can range from several months to over two years, meaning that records prior to 2013 are likely complete at
the time of analysis, but there may be applications from 2014 on that have yet to be published.
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In 50 years, this 18-month period
we’re in now will be seen as being
crucial for the future of the A.I.
community.... It’s when the A.I.
community finally woke up and
took itself seriously and thought
about what to do to make the
future better.”
Stuart Russell
Computer science prof. at UC Berkeley
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