CB Insights: Here are the top 100 AI companies in the world

Which products haven't been imbued with artificial intelligence (AI) at this point? In 2018, analysts pegged the global AI market at a whopping $7.35 billion, buoyed by the influx of machine learning-aided image recognition, object identification, detection, and classification, and geophysical detection startups, apps, and services in every conceivable sector (and particularly enterprise). But as with all promising technologies, not every AI startup, app, and service will pan -- or has panned -- out, and it becomes harder with each passing day to separate the wheat from the chaff. Fortunately, the folks at CB Insights have taken the bull by the horns. They today published their third annual cohort of AI startups -- a compilation of 100 of the most promising companies (whittled down from a pool of over 3,000) providing hardware and data infrastructure for AI apps, optimizing machine learning workflows, and applying AI across a range of industries.