Research to Reality: The Evolution of the New AI Ecosystem

If you were not paying attention, the AI boom seems like it came out of nowhere, arriving at a stroke with the release of ChatGPT in November 2022. In reality, it’s been building for years through the accumulation of discoveries in basic research. In this post, we identify the most influential AI research papers of the past 15 years. We also trace how they reverberate in the startup world today, in the form of scientists who’ve become founders and institutions that have turned into hubs of the new AI ecosystem.

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