Artificial Intelligence is moving at the speed of light, with multiple companies creating software, products and services in not just a vertical way – more of a horizontal disruption. Form Healthcare to Security, from Real Estate to Telecom, here is a look into 28 companies powering the disruption with AI – 1st Edition. Sherpa.ai was founded in 2012 after deep research into Artificial Intelligence, with the conviction of creating a personal assistant that would be not just useful, but indispensable for users. In order to do this, Sherpa brought together a team of experts in Artificial Intelligence who, coupled with a fantastic design, have been able to create the next generation of Digital Assistants which will help users make their life not just more exciting, but also more enjoyable. WellSaid Labs has developed state of the art text-to-speech technology that creates life-like synthetic voice, from the voices of real people.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has lost faith in autonomous cars for the time being. Wozniak has flip-flopped in his opinions about the technology over the last few years. In May 2017 he claimed driverless technology is the'biggest, most obvious moonshot,' in current times, pointing to Tesla as the most promising company in that field. But just months later he did a 180, and said he doesn't'believe anything Elon Musk or Tesla says.' Now, Wozniak has doubled down on his doubts surrounding autonomous technology, stating at a recent event that he has'given up' on self-driving cars. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has lost faith in autonomous cars for the time being.

As we mentioned above, Facebook worked with Microsoft to launch the ONNX standard, but it also has its own Caffe2 deep learning framework. It uses Caffe2 AI technology to power much of the backend on Facebook, including automatic removal of content that violates terms of use and language translations. And then there are all those Facebook chatbots, which businesses can use to interact with users in Messenger.