Top Well-Funded AI Startups To Watch In 2018

Artificial intelligence, in its many forms, will likely continue to redefine how individuals think about government, school, work, and daily life. And startups that are not leveraging AI are beginning to fall behind the rest of the pack. "AI will be a true differentiator for companies in the future. The companies that have mastered it will take off, those who haven't will dwindle (just like companies choosing to embrace software and the internet early on)," Scott Stephenson, founder and CEO of Deepgram, an automatic speech recognition company, told Crunchbase News in an email. And in a world where supergiant rounds are now quite common, AI startups have brought in some significant capital.