Much of the buzz around artificial intelligence has surrounded companies focused on general purpose artificial intelligence, as opposed to companies applying AI algorithms like machine learning and deep learning in specific industries. "From healthcare to finance to e-commerce, we're focused on changing people's lives." Taking a look at the core AI companies like Sentient -- companies focused on general-purpose AI applicable across a variety of industries -- a few have already received 50M or more in equity funding. These include Sentient, Ayasdi, Digital Reasoning, Vicarious (whose backers include angels Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Marc Benioff) as well as DataRobot. We used CB Insights data to look at the most well-funded core AI companies, below.