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Google has launched a new venture capital program focused on artificial intelligence, Axios is reporting<\/a>.<\/p>\n Google declined to comment on the report, which states that the initiative will be led by longtime Google VP of engineering Anna Patterson and involve a rotating cast of engineers instead of the venture investors\u00a0who work for\u00a0Alphabet Inc.\u2019s corporate venture unit, GV.<\/p>\n It isn\u2019t completely surprising that Google might create an investing practice around AI, particularly given Google CEO Sundar Pichai\u2019s recent pronouncement<\/a> that Google is becoming \u201cAI first\u201d rather than \u201cmobile first.\u201d<\/p>\n Indeed, AI was the running thread throughout the recent Google I\/O developers conference, where the company introduced new tensor processing unit (TPU) chips that promise to more quickly train and run<\/a> AI models for researchers and businesses; it also announced (among many other things)\u00a0that\u00a0its Google Assistant, the company\u2019s virtual personal assistant that\u2019s available on devices like the Google Home and Pixel phone, will soon grow\u00a0more conversational<\/a>.<\/p>\n Also potentially playing into this new development: Google\u2019s recent acquisition<\/a> of Kaggle, a platform that hosts data science and machine learning\u00a0competitions<\/a>.<\/p>\n According to Axios, Patterson and company will reportedly be co-investing with GV when it makes sense to do so. Check sizes, it says, will range from\u00a0$1 million and $10 million to start, though it isn\u2019t yet clear how much Google plans to commit to the program, yearly or otherwise.<\/p>\n Featured Image: AFP\/Getty Images<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"a](\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/gettyimages-147367649.jpg?w=680\")
Google has launched a new venture capital program focused on artificial intelligence, Axios is reporting. Google declined to comment on the report, which states that the initiative will be led by longtime Google VP of engineering Anna Patterson and involve a rotating cast of engineers instead of the venture investors\u00a0who work for\u00a0Alphabet Inc.’s corporate venture unit, GV. It… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/img><\/a>
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