{"id":184721,"date":"2017-07-12T07:37:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T05:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=184721"},"modified":"2017-07-12T07:37:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T05:37:17","slug":"google-launches-venture-fund-to-invest-in-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/184721\/google-launches-venture-fund-to-invest-in-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Google launches venture fund to invest in artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet has launched Gradient Ventures, a new company within Google that will invest in early-stage artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Gradient will invest in 10 to 15 deals this year committing between $1 million to $8 million to each project.<\/p>\n<p>Google said that its AI-focused venture fund will invest in and connects startups with Google\u2019s resources, innovation, and technical leadership in artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our fund focuses on helping founders navigate the challenges in developing AI-based products, from leveraging training datasets to helping companies take advantage of the latest techniques, so that great ideas can come to life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Participants already in Gradient Ventures&#8217; portfolio include Cogniac, Aurima, and CAPE.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/182081\/google-fined-record-e2-4-billion-for-manipulating-eu-search-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google fined record \u20ac2.4 billion for manipulating EU search results<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet has launched Gradient Ventures, a new company within Google that will invest in early-stage artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":97273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,53],"class_list":["post-184721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184727,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184721\/revisions\/184727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}