AI Weekly: $102 million and machine learning's theory of general relativity

That was the question last week as Element.ai raised this hefty sum in a Series A funding. Investors included Microsoft, Nvidia, and Intel Capital, all of whom have their own AI ambitions. Element aims to make AI easy for businesses to use by connecting them with machine learning experts. And while Element may have brought together competitors Microsoft and Intel, the rivals have been fiercely staking their own claims with a flurry of investments and acquisitions. While these moves point to AI one day becoming ubiquitous for business tasks, Google's release of an academic paper called "One Model to Learn Them All" shows another route for machine learning to become commonplace.