Artificial intelligence has emerged as the hottest investment sector this year with many Indian start-ups and tech giants betting big on this technology to break into the market. Tech companies are looking forward to new opportunities in AI to transform their daily operations. This year the tech industry has witnessed significant push for AI with investments in this technology related start-ups and companies reaching to new heights. Let's take a look at the investment trends in this domain in 2017 and the major investments made. An Economic Times report stated that Ratan Tata-backed, AI-based conversational chatbot Niki.ai has raised funding this year from a German multinational software corporation SAP.