When your early stage startup attracts capital from Jerry Yang, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Ashton Kutcher, or Vinod Khosla, people tend to take notice. If you land all of them, you clearly have at least a great deck. Samsung thinks so, and now it’s joining those celeb investors in taking a piece of Vicarious, which says it is building the “next generation of [artificial intelligence] algorithms.”
Founder Dileep George told the India Times, “AI has many applications. Starting from optical character recognition to scanning receipts from hand-written notes and converting those to digital form and understanding what is written in the notes – that’s one example of an application that can have a big impact.”
More: Vicarious, Stuff.co.nz
