The big comparison: which tech giant is most likely to win the race for AI dominance?

AI is the biggest topic of the moment and all the big techs want to grab their piece of the pie in this trend. Which one will succeed? Which one has the best chance and how are they doing?

What is the race for?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a field that focuses on creating intelligent machines and software. Companies are currently battling for leadership in key areas that make up a huge pie that every company wants a bite of. And it's tempting! And in what areas is this race being fought?

- General AI: Achieving machines with human-level intelligence and general intelligence. That's still out of reach, but it's a long-term goal for tech companies. Google, OpenAI, DeepMind, etc. are engaged in this research.

- Special AI: Focused on achieving and surpassing human capabilities in specific domains such as playing Go (DeepMind), natural language processing (Google, Facebook), image recognition (Google, Facebook, NVIDIA), etc.

- Applied AI: Development of AI systems and algorithms that can be…