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Companies & Associations (32)
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AIBrain
Silicon Valley based AIBrain is an artificial intelligence company developing AI mobile apps and autonomous systems (e.g. robotics) applications. Technologies include AICoRE and iRSP, for intelligent agent and robotics AI respectively.
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Alibaba
Chinese ecommerce tech giant Alibaba employs a variety of AI technology in its operations and in 2017 committed to investing $15 billion in AI research in the coming years.
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Amazon
Seattle-based web giant Amazon provides eccomerce and cloud services involving a growing array of machine learning and support services, as well as home and related automation extensions to its Alexa platform, which acts as a home-based intelligent agent, with cloud based information and updates access.
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Anki
San Francisco-based company Anki has developed advanced consumer robotics called “Cozmo”, which with emotional interactive intelligence. They also offer Overdrive, which is an AI racing development system.
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Apple
Cupertino-based Apple continues to develop and acquire companies across a range of AI technologies. In addition to SIRI, its intelligent digital assistant technology, and its neural networking ASIC (application Specific Integrated Circuit called Apple Neural Engine) systems, Apple has begun working in machine learning and workflow automation areas, as it continues to expand through development and acquisition.
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Baidu
As the "AI hegemon of the East", Baidu joins Alibaba and Tencent on this list as one of three Chinese tech powerhouses. Originally based on a Chinese-language search engine, Baidu has grown to spearhead China's coprotate AI development, partnering with the Chinese government to open the nation's first national AI research lab, as well as developing the Apollo driverless car operating system and its DuerOS voice assistant.
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Banjo
San Francisco-based Banjo uses real-time AI to identify informational patterns in social networking sources, focusing on location-based social networking.
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CloudMinds
Multinational corporation CloudMinds develops cloud-enabled intelligence-based systems robots, by employing a combined, rather than segregated, human-robotics approach of humans controlling robots, referred to by them as “CI”.
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Darktrace
Cambridge-based cybersecurity firm Darktrace utilizes machine learning to protect networks from sophisticated attacks by using AI-based “Enterprise Immune System”.
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Facebook
With an active user base of more than 2 billion, Silicon Valley-based tech giant Facebook is one of the largest employers of AI tech in social media, using AI for a range of social media pattern and data flow/analysis tasks. They operate several AI Labs around the globe currently, working to evolve data and media access and handling, as well as other areas.
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Google
Google has developed and acquired a broad range of AI and related technologies. They are a premier developer and supporter of AI, and have created some of the top tools and resources in the industry, including number 1 Tensorflow. They employ Deep Learning across searching, language handling, pattern recognition and other areas, helping to define the leading-edge of AI and quantum technologies.
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H20
Silicon Valley-based H2O.ai is widely uses, especially in research and corporate AI development areas, where they assert to having over 100,000 groups and companies using their development tools. Like Google and others, they have provided an array of open source development tools such as “Deep Water” and “Sparkling Water”, which integrates Spark with H2O.ai.
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IBM
With the largest stable of technology patents assembled, IBM is a leader in the field of artificial intelligence and Quantum Computing. Widely recognized for their Jeopardy-winning Watson AI. They have developed a Quantum Computing system, and provide cloud based access via “QISKIT”. Quantum-AI is among their key focuses, putting IBM at the forefront of advanced AI development.
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iCarbonX
The Chinese company iCarbonX employs AI to deliver personalized health analysis/identification capabilities. They have taken an alliance-based approach with companies from around the globe, specializing in different types of health-care information acquisition, management and analysis across behavioral, genomic, diagnostic and related areas.
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InsideSales.com
Utah-based company InsideSales.com offers business customers a host of AI-based tools for CRM and predictive sales management.
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Intel
Santa Clara-based Intel is developing a range of ASIC and related AI hardware, and has acquired several specialized AI companies such as Nervana, which are synergistic with AI objectives in machine learning for computer and embedded systems.
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Iris AI
Norwegian company Iris.ai has developed AI to assist R&D development for researchers, academics, and related professionals by mining data and extracting patterns from large formatted and unformatted datasets.
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Micron
Idaho-based hardware company Micron specializes in memory applications and processors, including its Automata processor technology being developed in coordination with Intel.
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Microsoft
Seattle-based Microsoft has developed an extensive array of some of the more widely used AI development tools and libraries, and continues to contribute to a large growing set of open-source AI tools.
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Mobovi
China-based AI & robotics company Mobovi is most famous for its wearables including the Android-compatible Ticwatch smartwatch. In 2017, Mobovi entered a partnership with Volkswagen in order to integrate Mobovi's research into vehicular AI applications.
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Next IT
Spokane-based Next IT works across a range of professional services sectors including health, data services and IT to provide interactive interfaces, like chatbots and related systems.
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Salesforce
Silicon Valley-based Salesforce has acquired several companies across the field of AI, as well as using their hundreds of data scientists and AI developers to create their advanced AI they call “Salesforce Einstein”. This has enabled them to offer rapid development and workflow automation that leverage their AI as enterprise and cloud-based solutions.
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Tencent
Among the tope three Chinese tech conglomerates featured in this list, Tencent has joined competitors Baidu and Alibaba in developing a wide array of internal and consumer AI technologies, including medical computer vision AI systems for the Chinese government's plan to officially employ AI in partnership with tech companies.
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Tesla
Palo Alto-based alectric auto company Tesla has made headlines in recent years for integrating semi-autonomous "autopilot" features across its fleet of vehicles. Founded by AI ethics advocate and entrepreneur Elon Musk, Tesla is improving its AI technology by aiming to create its own proprietary hardware.
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Twitter
San Francisco-based social media giant Twitter has already made a large financial and R&D commitment into AI, approaching a billion dollars to date. They are focusing on identifying and leveraging information, demographic, geo and other patterns to provide enhanced services with increased utility and efficiencies.
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Uber
San Francisco-headquartered rideshare leader Uber is increasingly utilizing AI technology in order to create autonomous vehicles for rideshare and commercial applications, announcing a partnership with Volkswagen and Nvidia in 2018.
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UBTECH
Chinese robtics firm UBTECH develops AI-powered robtic toys and humanoid bots for consumers.
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X.ai
New York-based developer X.ai enables companies and developers to integrate their AI-based intelligent agent “Amy” into existing formatted data sources, including email, documents, calendars and related systems, to enable automated information handling, alerts, scheduling and more..
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Yext
New York based AI company Yext has developed its Yext Knowledge Engine and other tools designed to help business advertise and provide a centralized base of company information to customers.
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ZestFinance
Los Angeles-based ZestFinance has developed and deployed an extensive AI technology base, which it has focused on the financial sector. The believe adamantly that Machine learning is the future of software across the financial arena.
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Zoox
Zoox, based in Silicon Valley, aims to compete with established autonomous mobility players by developing a fully autonomous electric car fleet from the ground up.
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Zymergen
Silicon Valley-based Zymergen uses an AI-based approach to creating and optimizing biological and chemical products including genetic research and strain development as well as materials research.
Initiatives
Associations and Initiatives (13)
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Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2)
A research institute started by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, AI2 employs AI researchers and engineers to perform high-impact research on beneficial AI technologies. AI2 also maintains an in-house startup incubator for promising AI companies and research.
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Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Perhaps the most established of academic initiatives in the field of AI research, AAAI is an organization of academics, researchers, and scientists undertaking research on AI. AAAI is responsible for publication of the quarterly AI Magazine in addition to AI relevant reports and books, and hosts a variety of conferences, workshops, and symposia.
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Computing Research Association
The Computing Research Association (CRA) is a diverse group of industrial, academic, and governmental organizations and societies. The CRA maintains four distinct committees within its membership, including among them the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) which in turn hosts “task forces” focusing on revolutionary technologies such as AI and quantum computing and their effects on society.
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Facebook AI Research (FAIR)
As Facebook’s AI-oriented research organization, FAIR conducts and publishes research across “the full spectrum of topics related to AI” including projects in “theory, algorithms, applications, software infrastructure and hardware infrastructure”. In addition to research activity, FAIR publishes open-source software, collaborates with academic partners, hosts a yearlong residency, and presents at AI-related workshops and conferences.
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Future of Humanity Institute (FHI)
Led by philosopher Nick Bostrom, the University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute focuses on the philosophic and social “big picture” concerns of AI as well as conducting scientific and technical research. The FHI also hosts the Strategic Artificial Intelligence Research Centre, a joint Oxford-Cambridge initiative which aims to address the challenges “of building AI systems that remain safe even when highly capable” as well as means to “understand and shape the strategic landscape of long-term AI development”.
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Future of Life Institute
The Future of Life Institute, founded by AI researcher Max Tegmark and other visionaries focuses on proactively addressing existential risks to humanity including Superintelligent AI as well as biotechnology, nuclear proliferation, and climate change. The Future of Life Institute hosts an advisory board of leading theorists and researchers dedicated to averting global catastrophic risks and steering humanity in a beneficial direction.
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Google Brain
Google Brain leverages the resources and assets of Google to research deep learning, genomics, robotics, and other practical applications of machine learning technologies.
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Google People+AI Research Initiative (PAIR)
Google’s People+AI Research Initiative is a research organization emphasizing the human interaction with AI systems in order to foster “people-centric AI”. In addition to conducting research to “create frameworks for design in order to drive a humanistic approach to artificial intelligence”, PAIR also hosts a variety of educational tools and resources for the general public.
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IBM Watson AI XPRIZE
The IBM AI XPRIZE is a multi-year competition involving research teams from around the world utilizing AI to provide beneficial and innovate solutions to problems in the areas of “Health & Wellness, Learning & Human Potential, Civil Society, Space & New Frontiers, Shelter & Infrastructure, [and] Energy & Resources”. Already underway and currently in its second round of development, the AI XPRIZE will culminate in 2020 with a grand prize of $5 million to be awarded to the leading team.
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
“The world's largest technical professional organization for the advancement of technology”, the IEEE is an eminent organization of engineers, scientists, academics, and professionals in the technology industries. In addition to hosting working committees such as The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, IEEE also organizes conferences, establishes standards, and publishes the eminent journal IEEE Spectrum which provides popular and academic coverage of technology topics including robust coverage on AI.
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Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)
Research nonprofit MIRI was founded in order to “study the mathematical underpinnings of intelligent behavior”, focusing on the long-term aim of developing “formal tools for the clean design and analysis of general-purpose AI systems.” In addition to this research into AI alignment and safety, MIRI also supports independent MIRIx conferences on AI safety.
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OpenAI
Cofounded by entrepreneur and AI safety advocate Elon Musk, the nonprofit OpenAI conducts proactive research aimed at “discovering and enacting the path to safe artificial general intelligence”. Supported by leading tech companies, OpenAI is focused on longer-term AI development and publishes research papers, blog posts, and open source tools for AI research.
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Partnership on AI to Benefit People and Society
Founded in 2016, the Partnership on AI is a diverse consortium of leading tech industry companies and nonprofits dedicated to developing best practices for AI technologies, educating the public, and fostering discussion on the impacts of Artificial Intelligence on society.
