The world with a new wave of technology Artificial intelligence It has changed. This tool is capable of creating photos, segmenting health information and writing poetry. Also, this technology could possibly take over human jobs and make weapons obsolete.
Top 10 artificial intelligence startups
AI By attracting billion dollar investments from large technology companies and also through venture capital, it is achieving the latest achievements. In the following, we introduce 10 of the biggest, loudest and most capitalized artificial intelligence startups.
OpenAI
- Products: ChatGPT chatbot, artificial intelligence model, Dall-E photo generator
- CEO: Sam Altman
- Investors: Microsoft, venture capital firm Sequoia Capital and several other companies
- Amount of investment: more than 11 billion dollars
- Current value: more than 27 billion dollars
- Location: San Francisco
OpenAI It is now considered one of the most well-known companies in the field of AI. The company’s products have succeeded in making the general public interested in productive artificial intelligence tools for the first time. These tools have the ability to respond to text searches by producing text content with photos as well as poetry and essay writing. OpenAI in 2022 artificial intelligence model of image generation Dall-E and chatbots ChatGPT published ChatGPT has performed well on the bar exam and other standardized exams and may change the way homework is done forever. The introduction of this product created a big change in the field of chatbots and made artificial intelligence startups more powerful.
Stability AI
- Products: Stable Diffusion photo generator artificial intelligence model and StableLM language model
- CEO: Emad Mostoquo
- Investors: Coato Management, Lightspeed Venture Partners, O’Shaughnessy Ventures and several other companies.
- Amount of investment: 111 million dollars
- Current value: $1 billion
- Location: London
StabilityAI The artificial intelligence model popularized Stable Diffusion and paid for its computing power repair. This photo generator model has the ability to create images that are incredibly similar to real images. Of course, this company has faced a controversial problem; One of the creators of Stable Diffusion has accused the company of stealing his idea to make this product.
StabilityAI said that three of the creators of the initial version of this AI model are working on its next versions in the company itself. The company, which recently sought to raise $4 billion in funding, may be able to release some of its major AI products this year with its legacy tools.
Runway
- Products: Text to video conversion tools
- CEO: Cristobal Valenzuela
- Investors: Flicis Ventures, Ampilify Partners, Lux Capital, Coatue, Compound, Madrona and several other companies
- Amount of investment: 196 million dollars
- Current value: $1.5 billion
- Location: New York
Many experts believe that after the creation of photo generative models and chatbots, the next big development in the field of generative AI is the creation of video with this tool. Ranway products now provide the possibility to create video based on multi-word text. The company has even organized an artificial intelligence film festival to demonstrate the potential capabilities of AI in this field.
Hugging Face
- Products: Open source repository for artificial intelligence models
- CEO: Clément Delange
- Investors: venture capital companies Lux Capital, Coatue, Sequoia, Addition, A capital, SV angel, Beta Work and several other companies
- Amount of investment: 160 million dollars
- Current value: $2 billion
- Location: New York
Hugging Face It plays a key role in the field of generative artificial intelligence. This company is considered a main source that companies active in the field of AI can find their desired artificial intelligence models freely among the models offered by Hugging Face. The company’s artificial intelligence models include models developed by Google, Meta and Microsoft. Hugging Face was first introduced as a chatbot for teenagers in 2010 and has now become a leading advocate for turning artificial intelligence into open source, ethical and climate-conscious software.
Cohere
- Products: Natural language processing models for business
- CEO: Aidan Gumez
- Investors: cloud computing company Salesforce (Salesforce), Nvidia, venture capital company Index Ventures (Index Ventures) and Tiger Global Management (Tiger Global Management), several well-known figures in the world of artificial intelligence, including Geoffrey Hinton, Peter Abil Abbeel), Phi Phi Li and several others
- Amount of investment: 420 million dollars
- Current value: $2 billion
- Location: Toronto
Cohere It is designing and building several major language models that businesses can use to create chatbots, search tools, and other products. It was recently reported that the already highly valued startup is in talks to raise $6 billion.
Anthropic
- Products: Cluade AI Assistant
- CEO: Dario Amodei
- Investors: Spark Capital, Sound Ventures, Zoom Ventures, and several other companies, including Google and Salesforce.
- Amount of investment: 1 billion dollars
- Current value: $5 billion
- Location: San Francisco
Anthropic It is considered an active company in the field of AI, which focuses on the cautious development of this technology. The company’s artificial intelligence services are designed to be as safe as possible. Anthropic was founded in 2021 by several former OpenAI employees, and in March of that year launched its first chatbot, the Claude, unveiled Cloud was created on the Slack team collaboration platform to provide thread summaries and answer questions. This artificial intelligence tool is also available to users on the question and answer website Quora in the form of a question-answering bot called Poe.
Character.AI
- Products: Providing personal chatbot building tools
- CEO: Noam Shazier (Dario Amodei)
- Investors: financial services company Andreessen Horowitz, Nat Friedman, computer scientist, Elad Gil, author, SV Angel and E Capital investment companies
- Amount of investment: 193 million dollars
- Current value: $1 billion
- Location: Menlo Park
Character.AI It can create chatbots for you with different characters like Elon Musk, Socrates and Super Mario. These chatbots have exactly the same personality as the people in question and can talk. In addition, people can create chatbots with imaginary characters such as a fat unicorn or a banana with the help of this company. Character.AI offers its service for free; But it has recently created a paid plan with a monthly subscription of $9.99. The CEO of the company said that he would like everyone in the world to be able to use his company’s technology.
Midjourney
- Products: photo production tools
- CEO: David Holz
- Investors: No investors (this company has provided its own capital)
- Amount of investment: None
- It has no investors
- Location: San Francisco
Midjourney has so far managed to create amazing artwork and visuals with AI. The product of this company, like OpenAI’s Dall-E and StabilityAI’s Stable Diffusion, has the ability to create photos based on input text. The only way to use Midjourney is the Discord group, and artists in this group can describe their desired image with text. The CEO of Midjourney has said that the company has no investment in 2022 and operates without financial incentives. David Holz said he founded the company with the sole purpose of creating a place to work on interesting and important projects for the next 10 years.
Scale AI
- Products: Artificial intelligence training
- CEO: Alexander Wang
- Investors: Dragoneer Investment Group, Greenoak Capital Partners, Tiger Global Management, Koto and several other companies
- Amount of investment: 603 million dollars
- Current value: $7.3 billion
- Location: San Francisco
Training AI and creating a program to correctly recognize elements in an image requires a large number of labeled images of real elements to help the technology recognize them in images.
ScaleAI provides software and human power to tag text, video and audio data. In May, the company’s CEO acknowledged in a post that in his opinion, the next principle of the war will be defined by AI, which will be needed in the fight against tyranny and concentration of power.
Abnormal Security
- Products: Email security platform
- CEO: Ivan Riser (Alexander Wang)
- Investors: venture capital companies Insight Partners, Graylock Partners, Menlo Ventures and several other companies
- Amount of investment: 284 million dollars
- Current value: $4 billion
- Location: San Francisco
Email inboxes can become a minefield for victims through phishing attempts, malware, and scams. Countering these cyber attacks has become a multi-billion dollar opportunity for Abnormal Security. The company raised $210 million last year to build a security platform to block threats sent to platforms like email, Slack and other services. The startup uses machine learning to spot red flags like changes in tone or urgent bills and has over 500 employees. The company’s artificial intelligence is trained to detect scams through messages that look unusual.
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