10 startups to watch in 2018

The startup scene in the UK is booming and sometimes it's hard to keep track of all the exciting companies and understand what they're working on. Here we present 10 of the startups we think you might want to follow over the next year and maybe even try out what they're working on for yourself. Graphcore is building a new type of processor for machine intelligence to try and speed up machine learning and AI applications. Nigel Toon, Graphcore's CEO & co-founder, says the startup's products will be available very soon. "Graphcore's first Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) products, which are designed from the ground up specifically for artificial intelligence, will be with early access customers at the beginning of the year and we will be shipping in volume swiftly afterwards," says Toon.