{"id":88522,"date":"2019-03-09T10:22:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T18:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/the-worlds-most-valuable-ai-companies-and-what-theyre-working-on"},"modified":"2019-03-09T10:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T18:22:27","slug":"the-worlds-most-valuable-ai-companies-and-what-theyre-working-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/the-worlds-most-valuable-ai-companies-and-what-theyre-working-on","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Most Valuable AI Companies, and What They\u2019re Working On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n8Oxbdii3sI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence and its subset of disciplines\u2014such as machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision \u2014are seemingly becoming integrated into our daily lives whether we like it or not. What was once sci-fi is now ubiquitous research and development in company and university labs around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the startups working on many of these AI technologies have seen their proverbial stock rise. More than 30 of these companies are now valued at over a billion dollars, according to data research firm CB Insights, which itself employs algorithms to provide insights into the tech business world.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Private companies with a billion-dollar valuation were so uncommon not that long ago that they were dubbed unicorns. Now there are 325 of these once-rare creatures, with a combined valuation north of a trillion dollars, as CB Insights maintains a running count of this exclusive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbinsights.com\/research-unicorn-companies\">Unicorn Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The subset of AI startups accounts for about 10 percent of the total membership, growing rapidly in just 4 years from 0 to 32. Last year, an unprecedented 17 AI startups broke the billion-dollar barrier, with 2018 also a record year for venture capital into private US AI companies at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbinsights.com\/research\/artificial-intelligence-funding-venture-capital-2018\/\">$9.3 billion<\/a>, CB Insights reported.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-most-valuable-ai-companies-and-what-theyre-working-on5.jpg\" alt=\"AI startup investments graph cbinsights Peter Rejcek AI\" width=\"1762\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-most-valuable-ai-companies-and-what-theyre-working-on5.jpg 1762w, https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/AI-startup-investments-cbinsights-300x96.png 300w, https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/AI-startup-investments-cbinsights-768x246.png 768w, https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/AI-startup-investments-cbinsights-900x288.png 900w, https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/AI-startup-investments-cbinsights-696x223.png 696w, https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/AI-startup-investments-cbinsights-1068x342.png 1068w, https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/AI-startup-investments-cbinsights-1312x420.png 1312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1762px)  100vw, 1762px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/the-worlds-most-valuable-ai-companies-and-what-theyre-working-on\">Continue reading \u201cThe World\u2019s Most Valuable AI Companies, and What They\u2019re Working On\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence and its subset of disciplines\u2014such as machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision \u2014are seemingly becoming integrated into our daily lives whether we like it or not. What was once sci-fi is now ubiquitous research and development in company and university labs around the world. Similarly, the startups working on many of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,45,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-finance","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}