Google's Gradient ventures will provide Funds and Mentorship to AI startups QPT

Google has launched Gradient Ventures, a new venture fund with technical mentorship for early-stage startups focused on artificial intelligence. Through Gradient, Google will provide portfolio companies with capital, resources, and dedicated access to experts and bootcamps in AI. And, Google will take a minority stake in the startups . The goal of the Gradient Ventures is to help their portfolio companies overcome engineering challenges to create products that will apply artificial intelligence to today's challenges and those we'll face in the future. Their portfolio is already growing, and their first companies are making progress, including Algorithmia, a marketplace for algorithms and functions, and Cogniac, a suite of tools used to create and manage visual models.