In late 2016, Hugh Harvey was working as a consultant doctor in the UK's National Health Service. Harvey had dabbled in machine learning while doing a research degree, and had seen the potential for artificial intelligence to revolutionize health care. But he felt strongly that the introduction of AI into medicine was not going to come from within the NHS--it was going to come from industry. So when an opportunity opened up at a buzzy new health-tech startup, Babylon Health, he applied. Founded in London in 2013 by Ali Parsa, a British-Iranian ex-banker, Babylon had a lofty goal: It wanted to do with health care what Google did with information; that is, make it freely and easily available to everyone.

IN2018, ON A TRIP to his ancestral homeland, Alexandr Wang listened as China's brightest engineers gave impressive presentations on artificial intelligence. He found it odd that the researchers conspicuously avoided any mention of how AI might be used. Wang, whose immigrant parents were nuclear physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where the first atomic bombs were designed, was unsettled. "They were really dodgy on what the use cases were. You could tell it was for no good," recalls Wang, the cofounder of Scale AI, who has no second "e" in his first name so that it has eight characters, a number associated with good fortune in Chinese culture. Scale was then an up-and-coming startup providing data services primarily to self-driving auto-makers.

AI is the fastest-growing technology in the world. Artificial intelligence is one of those transformation technologies that is well-poised to address global challenges like affordability and accessibility of quality healthcare, education, and automobile solutions. For India, AI has been a pioneering technology that has helped the country combat major challenges like the Covid-19 pandemic. Several Indian companies are leveraging advanced technologies like AI, ML, deep learning, and NLP, to name a few, to contribute to the advancement of the tech industry of the country. Over the past couple of years, the growth of Indian AI companies has been exponential.

China's startup ecosystem, which produced several world-leading companies, has been in the news in the recent past about the impact of the government regulations on the big technology firms. However, despite the regulatory shakeups and the COVID-19 pandemic notwithstanding, China has emerged as a powerhouse for artificial intelligence (AI) unicorns, according to Thematic Research at GlobalData, a leading data, and analytics company. GlobalData's research shows that of the total of 45 AI unicorns globally, China has the biggest share with 19 unicorns headquartered in the country. These 19 unicorns are collectively valued at $43.5bn. Priya Toppo, Analyst of Thematic Research at GlobalData, comments: "China is a leading player in AI, with a number of established companies such as Baidu, Hikvision, iFlytek, Tencent, and Alibaba. The country also has a strong AI startup ecosystem, which is evident from the large number of AI unicorns (privately held startup valued at $1bn or more)."

Data AI is rapidly evolving with several rapid advancements in data, ML, AI technologies. In order to succeed, it is critical for teams to keep up with the new technologies as well as leverage experiences w.r.t. The best way for teams to learn-&-grow is Peer-2-Peer mentoring.

Today, Tractable is worth $1 billion. Our AI is used by millions of people across the world to recover faster from road accidents, and it also helps recycle as many cars as Tesla puts on the road. And yet six years ago, Tractable was just me and Raz (Razvan Ranca, CTO), two college grads coding in a basement. Here's how we did it, and what we learned along the way. In 2013, I was fortunate to get into artificial intelligence (more specifically, deep learning) six months before it blew up internationally.

Today, Tractable is worth $1 billion. Our AI is used by millions of people across the world to recover faster from road accidents, and it also helps recycle as many cars as Tesla puts on the road. And yet six years ago, Tractable was just me and Raz (Razvan Ranca, CTO), two college grads coding in a basement. Here's how we did it, and what we learned along the way. In 2013, I was fortunate to get into artificial intelligence (more specifically, deep learning) six months before it blew up internationally.

India is a breeding ground for many industries. The increase in educated population and the run towards growth has unraveled technology into the country. Today, technology is a core element of growth in the Indian ecosystem. While well-established companies are embracing artificial intelligence for further improvement, Indian start-ups are ballooning like never before. Fortunately, technology-based Indian start-ups landscape has evolved to become the 3rd largest in the world.

From the beginning of the 2010s, big data and AI have been trending up to unleash revolutionary changes in many industries. Universities have set up data science programs and investors are pouring tons of dollars into AI-related startups. The US and China have long been the focus of AI development as these two countries have the most AI unicorns and investment activities. Among the top 20 most valuable AI unicorns, the US takes 9 and China takes 7 while the UK and Japan take 3 and 1 respectively. While the US and China outshine the rest in a global scale, the UK is the supernova in Europe, acting as the womb of the most regional AI startups.

From the beginning of the 2010s, big data and AI have been trending up to unleash revolutionary changes in many industries. Universities have set up data science programs and investors are pouring tons of dollars into AI-related startups. The US and China have long been the focus of AI development as these two countries have the most AI unicorns and investment activities. Among the top 20 most valuable AI unicorns, the US takes 9 and China takes 7 while the UK and Japan take 3 and 1 respectively. While the US and China outshine the rest in a global scale, the UK is the supernova in Europe, acting as the womb of the most regional AI startups.