Salesforce Shows Incumbents’ Power in AI Race

In a year that’s seen one out of every four dollars of venture funding go to an artificial intelligence startup, a historically un-sexy breed of investor has dominated the field: corporations.

And not just the tech behemoths. It’s no secret that Microsoft, Google, Nvidia and Oracle have collectively invested billions of dollars into AI startups that turn around and spend the capital on the investors’ cloud services or chips. But it turns out that enterprise software firm Salesforce …

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