Where Major Corporations Like Salesforce And NVIDIA Are Investing In Artificial Intelligence

The venture capital arms of big corporates like Citi, Salesforce, Tencent, and NVIDIA have each made several investments in the AI space. In every year since 2012, corporate VCs have engaged in escalating levels of investment activity to artificial intelligence startups. The trend is poised to reach an all-time high in 2017: in the first half of this year, the venture capital arms of corporations participated in $1.8B worth of disclosed equity funding across 88 deals to private AI companies, already exceeding last year's funding total. If the pace of CVC financing continues, AI startups will see 166 deals in 2017, for a nearly 30% increase from last year's total of 128 deals. In this briefing we will cover the future of cybersecurity as it relates to the implementation of artificially intelligent systems for preventative digital defense.