Is AI a game for the big dogs?

Artificial Intelligence is becoming a game for the big dogs. To succeed in genuine artificial intelligence efforts, beyond trivial prediction, you need three things. AI is emerging, so you need to be able to recruit and attract a sufficient core of people and create the culture that allows them to explore. You also need mechanisms to exploit their progress commercially. The second is training environments, which include training data but also systems which let you train and test your systems.