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Mechanical baristas, self-driving cars, robo-advisors, and state-run facial recognition campaigns. Artificial intelligence, in its many forms, will likely continue to redefine how individuals think about government, school, work, and daily life. And startups that are not leveraging AI are beginning to fall behind the rest of the pack.

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鈥淎I will be a true differentiator for companies in the future. The companies that have mastered it will take off, those who haven鈥檛 will dwindle (just like companies choosing to embrace software and the internet early on),鈥� Scott Stephenson, founder and CEO of Deepgram, an automatic speech recognition company, told Crunchbase News in an email.

And in a world where supergiant rounds are now quite common, AI startups have brought in some significant capital. , the most well-funded AI startup to date, has brought in a total of $1.6 billion. Most recently, the company raised round led by and . The round raised the company鈥檚 valuation to more than $4.5 billion, making it the most highly valued artificial intelligence company in history, .

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Co-Founder and CTO of Skyline AI, an artificial intelligence company in the commercial real estate industry, believes that we鈥檝e reached a renaissance age in AI.

鈥淭he most significant difference is that AI is now much easier to implement due to vast efforts by open source communities and the large cloud vendors,鈥� Co-Founder and CTO of Skyline AI Or Hiltch told Crunchbase News in an email. 鈥淭he result is that many more companies are using AI today compared to just five years ago.鈥�

With more corporate VCs and others looking to cash in on the hype surrounding AI, more early-stage companies will likely hop onto the fundraising bandwagon. In the meantime, Crunchbase News decided to demystify the artificial intelligence space by taking a look at the leading players in the industry.

We considered companies in the 鈥渁rtificial intelligence鈥� and adjacent categories. Included on the list are active startups that have raised at least one venture capital round since January 1, 2016. The list includes companies that are working specifically on artificial intelligence technologies. The startups are ranked based on known total funds raised.

Notably, according to Crunchbase, 40 percent of the 30 most funded AI startups that have raised since 2016 are based in China. As the Chinese government aims to become a in the technologies, Chinese startups have reaped the benefits of the current innovation-focused state of the industry in the country.

Companies in the chart range from the facial recognition company mentioned above to biotech-focused AI company , audio processing company , and enterprise AI company .

Organization Name	Headquarters Location	Total Equity Funding Amount
	Beijing, Beijing, China	$1,630M
	Shenzhen, Guangdong, China	$940M
	Beijing, Beijing, China	$607M
	New York, New York, United States	$577M
	Sunnyvale, California, United States	$481M
	Shanghai, Shanghai, China	$355.1M
	Beijing, Beijing, China	$301.4M
	Beijing, Beijing, China	$251.6M
	Provo, Utah, United States	$251.2M
	Fremont, California, United States	$214M
	Beijing, Beijing, China	$200M
	Shenzhen, Guangdong, China	$199.3M
	Beijing, Beijing, China	$189.3M
	Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom	$179.5M
	San Francisco, California, United States	$174.4M
	Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China	$158.3M
	San Francisco, California, United States	$157.5M
	Chaoyang, Liaoning, China	$153M
	San Diego, California, United States	$125M
	Washington, District of Columbia, United States	$122.2M
	San Francisco, California, United States	$122M
	New York, New York, United States	$121.3M
	Campbell, California, United States	$117.3M
	Santa Clara, California, United States	$215M
	Boston, Massachusetts, United States	$111.4M
	Bristol, Bristol, City of, United Kingdom	$110M
	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States	$108M
	Montr茅al, Quebec, Canada	$102M
	London, England, United Kingdom	$99M
	Beijing, Beijing, China	$75.4M

Editorial Note: Crunchbase News will continue to update this article to reflect future developments in artificial intelligence. For the previous list of AI startups to watch, go .