Wireless LAN provider Mist has secured $46 million in funding for its pioneering AI-powered WLAN services. Founded by former Cisco executives, Mist claims its cloud-based WLAN offering for enterprise is the world's first self-learning network, driven by the company's proprietary AI technology, which automates much of the network's management. The programmable cloud architecture is able to track and adapt to each user and their devices in order to deliver a reliable and consistent connection, according to a company blogpost. It does this by tracking over 100 pre- and postconnection states for every Wi-Fi client, and then sending that information to the Mist Cloud every few seconds to be run through multiple machine learning algorithms. The solution can also calculate mobile users' locations with low latency.