And the Winner is! Impressions on the World's 1st AI Startup Battle

Most of our readers are likely very familiar with the concept of startup competitions. It almost seems impossible to keep up with the awards and prizes handed out at such events being held week in and week out. However, we are very proud to share that we were able to pull of a truly unique startup competition yesterday at PAPIs Connect in Valencia, one where human judges stepped aside and let Artificial Intelligence figure out the winner. The brains behind this program was designed by PreSeries, BigML's joint venture with Telefónica Open Future_. As such, this organization marked the first public demo of PreSeries, which also began collecting beta user applications on its web site simultaneously.