Google has announced a new venture fund named Gradient Ventures to provide technical mentorship to artificial intelligence start-ups. The tech firm will take a minority stake in its chosen companies and offer funding, resources and expertise to encourage the startups to flourish. In an interview with TechCrunch, Google’s head of AI products, Astro Teller, said that the company is looking for “really smart people who are passionate about machine learning and deep learning.”
Google has announced a new venture fund named Gradient Ventures to provide technical mentorship to artificial intelligence start-ups. The tech firm will take a minority stake in its chosen companies and offer funding, resources and expertise to encourage the startups to flourish. Google is already mentoring Algorithmia, an algorithms and functions marketplace, and Cogniac, a range of visual model management tools.