Cool Vendors in Core AI Technologies - Jim Hare

With all the hype (and confusion) from vendors around AI, Gartner is taking the "bull" by the horns and launching a new collection of cool vendor reports just focused on AI. We have identified the most innovative emerging vendors with "cool" AI offerings that are having a real impact across different business functions, industry verticals, and geographies. This has meant sifting through the hundreds and hundreds of startups to find the ones that have a genuine AI offering (not simply slapping AI on their websites) and are really unique. Gartner defines AI through three key traits -- the ability to learn, predict and SURPRISE. Last week, my colleagues and I published our first "Cool Vendors in Core Technologies" research report highlighting five vendors that do indeed SURPRISE!