A Glimpse of New York's Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem

For the past decade, New York has worked to overtake the Bay Area as the US's #1 startup hub. New York startups have doubled their relative share of dollar volume invested into new tech companies nationwide since 2006 (source: Mattermark), and are now potentially staring down the opportunity to carve out a larger slice of that pie. Recent breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence will enable tasks that were once thought impossible for a computer to accomplish. In the way that mobile made Uber (via GPS chips) and Snapchat (via front-facing cameras) possible, AI is believed to be the technology that will set off the next wave of massively successful start ups. The most interesting thing to see over the next few years is how New York's startup community will weather the hype surrounding artificial intelligence.