10 AI companies to watch out for in 2017

From intelligent chat bots and machine learning to predictive analysis and natural language processing, AI (artificial intelligence) seems to be the next step for technology enterprises to maximize its chance of sucess at some goal. Tech giants such as Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Google and Facebook among a few others have already shifted their focus, funds and energies towards AI. Infer identifies and target business prospects using Predictive Scoring, Sales Intelligence, and Account-Based Marketing products. The company states that it picks up data from an enterprise's existing CRM or Marketing Automation system, and identifies social presence, website technology etc. It uses machine learning algorithms to retrieve patterns in the data to predict the best prospects and integrates predictive intelligence directly into the user's systems, to combine advanced customer intelligence with existing reports and workflows.