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Google's recent acquisition of Halli Labs, an artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) startup started by an IIT-Delhi alumni Pankaj Gupta, has fuelled Bengaluru's ambition of becoming the hub of AI and ML product startups. Halli, which means a village in Kannada, was born five months ago in Bengaluru for developing solutions to traditional problems using AI, ML, deep learning and natural language processing technologies. The company says it is focused on building deep learning and ML systems to address'old problems'. Besides IBM's Watson, which the company describes as a "cognitive" system that uses artificial intelligence (AI) technologies mostly in healthcare and education and IPsoft's Amelia, Microsoft Corporation's AI and Research Group, Amazon AI Services, Facebook AI Research (FAIR) and OpenAI, a non-profit lab partly funded by Elon Musk of Tesla are doing enormous work around in this area.