This is the competitive landscape for machine learning as of now. Countless posts have been written lately on who and what you need to follow in order to navigate this landscape, and rightly so. It's already enormous, and with any industry that's just awakening, the boundaries are not yet clear and everything is really up in the air. In short, if you were to want to build a chat application for your business or for fun, and looked at this chart, you would be confused on where to start. And no wonder: the latest buzzwords are AI and machine learning, startups all across the globe are getting in on the game, plenty who are just tacking the words on in hopes of quick funding – not without merit, as we've seen that investors are swarming in and some big exits have already been done.