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- Artificial intelligence is the next big technological wave, bringing new technologies, businesses and opportunities.
- While the big tech corporations are all betting on AI, a number of startups are quietly pushing the AI boundaries AI to create smarter, faster apps and products.
- Here's a list of AI startups that are on track to boom in 2019, according to the people closest to the startup world - the venture capitalists that watch, advise and invest in them.
As part of our comprehensive coverage of the startups that will boom in 2019, we asked the startup experts - venture capitalists - to name the startups they think are are going to be hot this year.
We asked them to tell us about companies within their portfolio as well as ones they haven't invested in but are hearing good things about.
One group of startups came up over and over again: those that specialize in artificial intelligence tech.
From AI robots to software that uses machine learning to automate tasks, here are Silicon Valley insiders' top AI picks, with funding information taken from Pitchbook, the deal-tracking database.