Top artificial intelligence companies include Google AI, Facebook, IBM AI, Apple AI, Elon Musk, Microsoft, Salesforce, Skype and Shell. These tech giants are investing more on AI and they are getting tremendous success.

Artificial Intelligence companies

Google AI:

Google Intelligence:

If you say the word of Artificial Intelligence, Google is the first company which is comes to my mind. Yes! Google is producing a lot of amazing products using Artificial Intelligence (AI) like Image and Speech recognition, Translation application, Self Driving Cars etc., They are using their services with their products. Google is investing a lot of money into the field of AI.

        In the year of 2014, Google bought Artificial Intelligence startup DeepMind for a huge $400 million. This deal is one of the largest AI acquisitions to date. The company has designed special Neural Network that learns how to play video games in a fashion similar to the human beings.

        This company made sensational news in 2016 after its “AlphaGo” program beats Lee Sedol who is a professional world’s best Go player. This year Google announced that its Machine Learning system TensorFlow will be available for free for everyone.

Facebook:

Facebook is using the technology of Artificial Intelligence to improve the experience of its users. Some of the achievements are,

Now, Even Blind people can use facebook effectively as normal people can do. Now FB helps to blind people to see photos by using Artificial Intelligence to narrate them via its iOS app.

In 2010 Facebook introduced Facial Recognition technology that could identify people in posted photos.

In 2013, Mark Zuckerberg who is a founder of Facebook introduced AI Lab for research. Deep Learning expert Yann LeCun is recruited to setup the AI headquarters. 

Facebook analyzed 20 countries and 21.6 million square kilometers amounting to 350TB of data to access internet across the globe.

AI Group:

Top companies in the world made AI partnership. Google, Facebook, Amazon, IBM and Microsoft announced a new partnership to study and formulate best practices on AI technologies. This partnership will create an open forum for AI and AI ethics. So it makes sense that other common people know about the research of AI a lot and it may produce the awareness of AI.
We have to note here, other famous companies Elon Musk and Apple are missing from the partnerships!!!

IBM AI

International Business Machine Corporation (IBM) IBM developed a product called Deep Blue. Deep Blue was a chess playing computer. It is the first computer chess playing system. Deep Blue won his first game itself against the world champion Garry Kasparov.

Watson AI

IBM’s Watson Computer is a question answering computer system capable of answering questions posted in Natural Language. In a quiz show Jeopardy! Watson won a game against previous winners Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings. Now, IBM aims to use computers to extract meaning from photos, videos, text and speech.

Apple AI:

This year Apple bought an Artificial Intelligence startup Emotient.
In 2015, Apple acquired UK based company Vocal IQ.

Report says that Apple decided to implement Siri to the next level using Vocal IQ speech AI software. 

In 2014, Vocal IQ introduced voice control technology for general motors. Using this, user can activate or deactivate certain functions by voice commands in car. So apple uses Artificial Technology widely in its products.

Elon Musk:

  Elon Musk is joined with other popular companies such as Amazon, LinkedIn and Paypal to form open source AI. Developing artificial intelligence in terms of increasing the benefits of mankind is the main goal of this project.
In 2014, Elon musk and the physicist Stephen Hawking had publicly voiced the opinion that superhuman artificial intelligence could provide incalculable benefits but could also end the human race if deployed incautiously.

So in Jan 2015, Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and other AI experts signed an open letter on Artificial Intelligence calling for research on the societal impacts of AI. This letter highlights both positive and negative effect of AI.

Microsoft Artificial Intelligence:

Microsoft’s project oxford aims to understand its users with face, emotion and speech application program interfaces (APIs). I believe after the partnership with other great companies Microsoft will get even more ideas and strength to get better place in Artificial Intelligence.

Skype:

Skype offers a real time language translation. This facility now available for six languages but in future, we can expect more from them. This translated system will recognize your speaking language and it converts into translated text as you speak.

Salesforce:

In Apr 2016, Salesforce acquired a startup company MetaMind. This company specialized in Deep Learning. Salesforce CEO Richard Socher says that,

“With MetaMind and salesforce coming together, we’ll able to offer customers real AI solutions with breakthrough capabilities that further automate and personalize customer support, marketing automation, and many other business processes.”

Shell:

Shell is going to launch a Virtual Assistant to answer its online customer’s questions.