Nvidia Inception highlights 4 AI startups for enterprise applications

Nvidia is tracking more than 2,800 companies through its Inception program, which was created to identify the best artificial intelligence startups. It does so to find investment opportunities, but the world's biggest standalone maker of graphics processing units (GPUs) also knows that these startups will use its technology for AI computing. I headed out to Nvidia's new headquarters in Santa Clara, California, last week to watch pitches from 12 companies in a Shark Tank-styled judging event. The 12 presenters were chosen from 200 applicants and are vying for a $1 million prize pool. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang introduced a panel of four judges and said he was glad that he didn't have to go through this kind of process when he cofounded Nvidia in 1993.