Artificial Intelligence research has made massive strides in the past few years. From intelligent assistants to self-driving vehicles to curated show recommendations, AI-backed technology is everywhere.

However, this list showcases the top AI startups that are going beyond everyday applications to do something truly groundbreaking.

Often backed by big name investors and run by impressive teams of Ph.Ds, MDs, engineers, deep learning experts, and data scientists, these startups are capitalizing on advances in AI to design products that make all aspects of human life more efficient–and intelligent.

Together, they make up an impressive range of new AI companies–and are showing us all just what can be accomplished when innovation and technology meet.

Here are the Top AI Startups to Watch:

1. Private AI

Industry: Privacy
Location: Toronto, Canada

Private AI is leading the way in privacy and security software. Its service helps companies redact Personally Identifiable Information and replace them with contextual categories. For example, a social security number is replaced with the term ‘SSN’. No third party processing is required, meaning your sensitive data is safe. Other key features include detecting and redacting 50+ entities at 99%+ accuracy, fast processing time, and 100% private and secure data processing.

Try Private AI for free here.

2. AssemblyAI

Industry: Speech Recognition
Location: Fully Remote

AssemblyAI is pioneering accurate and accessible speech recognition powered by cutting edge Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and AI research. Its Speech-to-Text API transcribes audio and video files and live audio streams with industry-best accuracy. In addition, the company offers Audio Intelligence APIs that secure higher ROI for users, including Sentiment Analysis, Topic Detection, Content Moderation, Auto Chapters, Entity Detection, and more. AssemblyAI focuses on delivering a world class developer experience through complete documentation of all features in its docs and a dedicated team of developers to answer any questions about the API.

Try AssemblyAI for free here.

3. LabelBox

Industry: Data Management
Location: Fully Remote

Labelbox is a training data platform that optimizes the training data iteration loop to make it more efficient. With Labelbox, you can annotate data, diagnose model errors and better understand performance, and prioritize your data. It also helps fully remote teams work more seamlessly when working with training data, facilitating faster progress and collaboration.

Try LabelBox for free here.

4. Deep Genomics

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Industry: Biotechnology
Location: Toronto, Canada

Deep Genomics offers a groundbreaking approach to drug discovery and disease management. Its proprietary AI Workbench helps facilitate easier drug development by untangling RNA biology complexity, identifying novel targets, and determining the best therapies to modulate diseases. Its AI Workbench 3.0 is set to be released soon, which will support target and therapy identification for complex, multi-gene diseases.

Read more about Deep Genomics and the AI Workbench here.

5. DarwinAI

Industry: **Intelligent Manufacturing
**Location: Toronto, Canada

Darwin AI provides end-to-end visual quality inspection for top manufacturers like Honeywell, Audi, BMW, and Lockheed Martin. By analyzing a company’s manufacturing process, Darwin AI can recommend hardware and build AI models that identify product defects with greater than human accuracy, reducing overhead and improving KPIs.

Contact Darwin AI here.

6. Hugging Face

Industry: Natural Language Processing
*Location: * New York, New York

Hugging Face is a Natural Language Processing (NLP) startup aiming to democratize AI with an open source community. Find new state-of-the-art models on Hugging Face’s model hub, run large scale NLP models directly from Hugging Face infrastructure, or browse the NLP library, Transformers. More than 5,000 companies already use Hugging Face’s service, including AWS, Facebook AI, Microsoft, Google AI, and more.

Try Hugging Face for free here.

7. Arize AI

Industry: MLOps
Location: Fully Remote

Arize is a machine learning observability platform that helps users improve their models by automatically discovering issues and diagnosing problems. Key features include a simple integration for any model regardless of platform or environment, pre-launch validation, an automatic AI monitoring system, dynamic troubleshooting, and more.

Request a trial of Arize here.

8. Cresta

Industry: Conversational AI
Location: San Francisco, CA

Cresta’s Expertise AI uses AI to provide real-time agent assistance, automated coaching, and business insights for customer-agent conversations. Its solution improves customer experience, drives better relationship building, and increases sales. Each customer-agent interaction is analyzed to ensure top performance from every agent. Cresta can also integrate with most CRMs and knowledge bases.

Request a demo of Cresta here.