These 5 companies are shaping the future of AI

With investors like JP Morgan Chase and Andreessen Horowitz, the company has raised a total funding of $157.5 million. It is an entertainment robotics company devoted to conveying artificial intelligence and robotics to our everyday lives.

IBM has been a leader in AI research since the field's early days in the 1950's, when Arthur Samuel developed a checker player that learned from experience. This work was one of the earliest and most influential examples of machine learning. Forty years later, IBM Research's chess-playing program Deep Blue made history when it beat Gary Kasparov, becoming the first chess-playing program to defeat a reigning world champion.

Serving more than 3 billion users around the globe, Facebook has made strategic investments in artificial intelligence to operate all the more effectively and to understand the data being shared on the social media network. To date, Facebook has opened three artificial intelligence labs — its newest lab opened in Paris a year ago. Notwithstanding their AI labs, Facebook has also acquired two AI startups.

Having acquired 9 AI new businesses, Google is deeply invested in facilitating artificial intelligence capabilities. Their primary research focus is on machine realizing which advances Google's language, speech translation, visual processing, ranking and prediction capabilities.