Entrepreneur Mark Cuban and actor Will Smith have invested $16 million in artificial intuition startup Node, writes Market Watch .
- The Node platform, founded by Google alumnus Falon Fatemi, claims to have been able to replicate the "sixth sense" phenomenon on a computer and translate it into a business product for market analysis, marketing, and even HR. For example, the system is able to predict when a person started thinking about changing jobs.
- $16 million is the largest one-time investment in Node in its five years of existence. She has raised $36 million over the years.
- For a company from California, this is not the limit: in total, in the region in the last three months of 2018 alone, there were 53 investment transactions in the field of artificial intelligence with a total investment of $1.92 billion. Despite the growth in investments (a record $9.3 billion in 2018) , the number of transactions last year fell for the first time in 5 years.
- According to McKinsey, half of respondents say their organizations are working with AI in some way, but only 21% have actually implemented the technology. According to experts, the purchase of AI developments is expensive and does not bring quick profits.