AI will crown the world's first trillion-dollar company

By now, everyone has heard of artificial intelligence: It populates our Facebook feeds and powers the virtual assistants we keep around our homes, including Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri. Perhaps you found this article through a Google search or a news aggregator app, which is also powered by AI. The average consumer interacts with AI multiple times every day -- despite a HubSpot survey that indicates that 63% of consumers don't even realize they have used AI -- but not everyone understands the full impact the technology will ultimately have on our economy. The founders of up-and-coming AI startups are poised to build multibillion-dollar enterprises. In fact, the immense value of AI technology is likely to spawn the world's first trillion-dollar companies -- a feat that tech giants like Amazon, Apple and Alibaba are racing to achieve.