One way to gauge the deployment of artificial intelligence in the marketplace is to track CB Insights' top 100 most-promising private AI companies to watch. The firm released its annual list this week, culled from over 6,000 companies. "This year's cohort spans 18 industries, and is working on everything from climate risk to accelerating drug R&D," said CB Insights CEO Anand Sanwal in a press release. The products the companies are bringing to market range from revenue-cycle management for hospitals to autonomous beekeeping and municipal waste sortation, the firm said in a blog post, highlighting "the breadth and depth of AI's impact on industries." The synthetic data platform AI.Reverie made its second appearance on the AI 100 list.

The most well-funded US artificial intelligence startup is Nuro, with just over $1B in disclosed equity funding, including a $940M Series B from SoftBank in February 2019. The California-based startup is developing autonomous vehicles, with a focus on last-mile delivery. Nuro is followed by New York's UiPath ($1B in disclosed equity funding) and Illinois' Avant ($655M). There are 9 unicorn startups on our map: robotic process automation vendor UiPath ($7.1B valuation), autonomous vehicles software provider Argo AI ($7B), agtech startup Indigo Agriculture ($3.5B), Nuro ($2.7B), alternative lending startup Avant ($1.9B), AI-powered predictive sales platform InsideSales.com The startup with the least funding on the list is Rhode Island's The Innovation Scout, a SaaS platform that connects enterprises with startups, accelerators, and more.

These startups are applying AI to discover new drugs, remotely monitor patients, securely transfer patient data, and more. Healthcare has become a crucial area for artificial intelligence research and applications. Startups in the space are leveraging AI technology to help individual consumers, clinicians, and hospital systems improve everything from fitness to clinical trials to diagnostics. For example, consumers are adopting virtual assistants to inquire about symptoms and using applications to track fitness metrics. Meanwhile, radiologists are using computer vision to discern between malignant and benign cells, while hospital systems are deploying AI-driven software to analyze the financial risk of individual patients on behalf of insurers.

Our map infographic shows the top tech startups in every US state, as determined by funding totals. Companies include Magic Leap, DraftKings, and Vox. The tech boom has diffused beyond the traditional hotbeds of California, New York, and Massachusetts, across the entire United States. In our latest map of the most well-funded American tech startup in each state, some companies with the deepest pockets were found in Florida (Magic Leap, $1.89B), Virginia (OneWeb, $2.2B), Utah (Domo, $698M), and Illinois (Avant, $655M). We'll look at 15 trends that we believe will shape the tech sector in 2018, ranging from the race for AI to car subscriptions and cross-border M&A.

Horizons Ventures has backed 3 unique companies on the map: Viv Labs, Sentient Technologies, and Affectiva. Increased investor interest in AI startups – from around 10 deals in Q1'11 to over 120 in Q2'16 – can be attributed to recent advances in machine learning algorithms, particularly "deep learning" technology, a souped up version of AI. Just this week, Google integrated deep learning into its Google Translate tool; Baidu announced the launch of DeepBench, an "open source benchmarking tool for evaluating deep learning performance across different hardware platforms"; and NVIDIA introduced Xavier, a deep learning-based supercomputer for driverless cars. In the private market, Google put deep learning in the spotlight back in 2014 when it acquired 4 startups focused on this AI tech in quick succession: DeepMind, Vision Factory, Dark Blue Labs, and DNNresearch. Apple, which joined the race in 2015, most recently acquired Turi, which has developed a deep learning toolkit, among other AI-based solutions.

Nanalyze prides itself in providing you with objective analyses of technology and the companies that are at the forefront of developing all of this cool, disruptive tech. For example, you may detect a certain amount of disdain when we talk about companies or jobs that we feel don't offer real--or at least substantial--value in the marketplace. That brings us to the ubiquitous Department of Human Resources and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in automating business processes. At best, HR is a necessary evil, like the designated hitter rule in baseball. So, while we would never cheer seeing anyone sent to the back of the unemployment line, we were quite interested to see how many artificial intelligence recruiting startups are going after Human Resources.

This list was KDnuggets most popular tweet recently, but the tweet only had the image and no company names or details. Here we list companies by category and in the order of high to low equity funding in each group. Company overview (e.g., headquarters location and total equity funding raised) is based on information as it have appeared on crunchbase.com The top countries for startups are: US 39, China 3, Israel 3, UK 3, France 1, Taiwan 1. For US, the top states are CA 23, MA 6, and NY 4.

This list was KDnuggets most popular tweet recently, but the tweet only had the image and no company names or details. Here we list companies by category and in the order of high to low equity funding in each group. Company overview (e.g., headquarters location and total equity funding raised) is based on information as it have appeared on crunchbase.com The top countries for startups are: US 39, China 3, Israel 3, UK 3, France 1, Taiwan 1. Here is the total funding by areas, which shows that the areas with most funding are AD Sales & CRM, Core AI, and BI & Analytics.

Deals to AI startups reached a record high last year, from 160 deals in 2012 to 658 in 2016. Although non-US deal share has been increasing over the time period, well over a majority of deals, around 70%, went to startups in the US in the last 5 years. The top 3 states for deals were California (51%), New York (11%), and Massachusetts (9%). Using the CB Insights database, we mapped the most well-funded AI startups in each of the 35 states where there have been equity deals to an AI company in the last five years. The map only includes companies that have not exited and only includes equity financing.

Deals to AI startups reached a record high last year, from 160 deals in 2012 to 658 in 2016. Although non-US deal share has been increasing over the time period, well over a majority of deals, around 70%, went to startups in the US in the last 5 years. The top 3 states for deals were California (51%), New York (11%), and Massachusetts (9%). Using the CB Insights database, we mapped the most well-funded AI startups in each of the 35 states where there have been equity deals to an AI company in the last five years. The map only includes companies that have not exited and only includes equity financing.