10 Artificial Intelligence Companies You Should Know

Artificial intelligence (AI) is set for exponential growth in the coming years. According to a 2016 report from CB Insights, equity financing in the AI space rocketed from $282 million to $2.4 billion from 2011 to 2015 with global equity funding for AI reaching $6 billion. AI has touched nearly every industry from manufacturing and robotics to the Internet of Things (IoT), finance, healthcare, legal, and even agriculture.

Within this, the technology industry has seen a plethora of new AI-related startups, as well as acquisitions and investments from major companies like Google, Samsung, GE, and Intel.

So who are the companies to watch? We've left off some of the obvious guys like Google, IBM, and Facebook in order to highlight 10 new companies at the forefront of AI and machine learning.

Chris Wiltz is the Managing Editor of Design News.