Investors share their predictions for AI and machine learning in 2018

Over the past three years, building intelligent apps -- apps powered by machine learning that continuously improve as they ingest new data -- has become easier and easier. Given the continued rise of machine learning, where are venture capitalists looking for the next set of investment opportunities? Generally, we see the core machine learning tools and building block services maturing, and now we are most interested in companies that are "moving up" the stack toward vertical applications, "moving down" the stack toward purpose-built hardware, and "moving out" of the data center toward intelligence at the edge. Here are four categories which we have been investing in and tracking closely because we believe they will play meaningful parts in the future of intelligent apps. As machine learning becomes more prevalent, cloud providers have raced to offer the latest GPUs for training machine learning models.