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Last Week in AI

Jesus Rodriguez
4 min readAug 25, 2019

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Every week, my team at Invector Labs publishes a newsletter to track the most recent developments in AI research and technology. You can find this week’s issue below. You can sign up for it below. Please do so, our guys worked really hard on this:

From the Editor: AI is a Race Between The United States and China but What About the Rest of the World

The artificial intelligence(AI) movement is regularly compared to the industrial revolution as one of those massive leaps forward that unlocked new levels of prosperity for many nations. However, is not often mentioned that the industrial revolution created a 150 year gap between the nations that industrialized and the ones that didn’t. If that gap was created when machines replaced hard labor, what would happen when they replace intellectual work?

It is commonly known that the United States and China dominate the AI race but how big is the gap with the rest of the world? This week, the Center for Data Innovation released a very complete report that quantifies the progress in AI in three main regions: The United States(US), China and Europe(EU). Based on the report, the US clearly dominates areas such as research, talent and development with China closing in fast. Despite the depth in talent and a long tradition of AI research excellence, Europe has…

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Jesus Rodriguez
Jesus Rodriguez

Written by Jesus Rodriguez

CEO of IntoTheBlock, President of Faktory, President of NeuralFabric and founder of The Sequence , Lecturer at Columbia University, Wharton, Angel Investor...

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