A couple weeks back, I spent a couple of days in San Francisco for the IBM Watson Developers Conference and our nation's largest AI business conference: AI World Conference and Expo. I met a handful of the very brightest -- and most prominent -- members of the AI community: Qualcomm Ventures Partner, Patrick Eggen; NVIDIA VP & GM, Jim McHugh; PwC Global & US Consulting Analytics Leader, Paul Blasé; IBM Fellow and IBM Watson VP and CTO, Rob High; Baidu Senior Researcher and Head of Systems, Gregory Diamos; Artificial Solutions CEO Lawrence Flynn and CMO Andy Peart; Steve Ardire, Advisor to Software Startups to name a few. They blew my mind with what they had to share! I consolidated key highlights from my chats -- and general sessions -- into 10 things you need to know about the enterprise AI world. To address the need, NVIDIA built the DGX-1 supercomputer which packs the horsepower of 250 servers.

"We now have a new computing model to power AI and solve what was once unsolvable, with superhuman speed and intelligence." "It's like the Ratatouille movie, but instead of'anyone can cook' it's'anyone can do machine learning.'" "Focus on your company's challenges and what it is that you want to achieve." - Beena Ammanath, General Electric VP Data and Analytics "The biggest constraint is people's ability to understand the potential of what they can do." "Think of AI like a rocketship, where data is the fuel and neural networks are the engine." "Startups, consulting orgs, big players all want and try to do this but it's complex like playing 3D chess, so we have to be an extreme pattern matcher to plan, anticipate, execute many moves ahead to win." - Steve Ardire, Advisor for Software Startups