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ARK Disrupt Issue 120: EVs, LiDAR, Privacy & Data, Fintech, & CRISPR
Please enjoy ARK Disrupt Issue 120. This blog series is based on ARK Brainstorming, a weekly discussion between our CEO, Director of Research, thematic analysts, ARK’s theme developers, thought leaders, and investors. It is designed to present you with the most recent innovation takeaways and to keep you engaged in an ongoing discussion on investing in […]
The State of Deep Learning in 2017
In early 2017, ARK published “Deep Learning: An Artificial Intelligence Revolution”. This whitepaper made the case for deep learning as a foundational technology that should transform not only technology companies but every sector of the global economy. Since the paper’s publication, deep learning continues to grow at a rapid pace both in research and in […]
ARK Disrupt Issue 107: Deep Learning, Ripple, CRISPR, and CES
Please enjoy ARK Disrupt Issue 107. This blog series is based on ARK Brainstorming, a weekly discussion between our CEO, Director of Research, thematic analysts, ARK’s theme developers, thought leaders, and investors. It is designed to present you with the most recent innovation takeaways and to keep you engaged in an ongoing discussion on investing in […]
Israel: An Innovation Powerhouse with Exponential Growth Potential
Israel is a world leader in the development of innovative products and services with companies that are advancing scientific research and enhancing every sector of the global economy. Ranked highly in the world for technological advancements and entrepreneurship, and responsible for many innovations, Israel has earned its status as an innovation powerhouse. Named the 10th […]
ARK Disrupt Issue 94: SpaceX, Autonomous Cars, Amazon, Artificial Intelligence, and the Microbiome Space
Please enjoy ARK Disrupt Issue 94. This blog series is based on ARK Brainstorming, a weekly discussion between our CEO, Director of Research, thematic analysts, ARK’s theme developers, thought leaders, and investors. It is designed to present you with the most recent innovation takeaways and to keep you engaged in an ongoing discussion on investing in […]
ARK Disrupt Issue 91: The Equifax Hack, AI, Payments, CRISPR, and The Self Drive Act Bill
Please enjoy ARK Disrupt Issue 91. This blog series is based on ARK Brainstorming, a weekly discussion between our CEO, Director of Research, thematic analysts, ARK’s theme developers, thought leaders, and investors. It is designed to present you with the most recent innovation takeaways and to keep you engaged in an ongoing discussion on investing in […]
Google: The Full Stack AI Company
Google has become a full stack AI company. It uses its own data to train its own algorithms running on its own chips deployed on its own cloud. The result is that Google is able to innovate very quickly in AI and deploy it ahead of its peers—just like Apple took full control of OS […]
ARK Disrupt Issue 75: Deep Learning, Micro-Finance, Ethereum, Autonomous Taxi Networks, and Stem Cells
Please enjoy ARK Disrupt Issue 75. This blog series is based on ARK Brainstorming, a weekly discussion between our CEO, Director of Research, thematic analysts, ARK’s theme developers, thought leaders, and investors. It is designed to present you with the most recent innovation takeaways and to keep you engaged in an ongoing discussion on investing in […]
ARK Disrupt Issue 61: Automation, Robotics, Machine Learning, and Bitcoin
Please enjoy ARK Disrupt Issue 61. This blog series is based on ARK Brainstorming, a weekly discussion between our CEO, Director of Research, thematic analysts, ARK’s theme developers, thought leaders, and investors. It is designed to present you with the most recent innovation takeaways and to keep you engaged in an ongoing discussion on investing in […]
Shared Autonomous Vehicles: A Multi-Hundred-Billion Dollar Opportunity for Google
UPDATE (04/26/16): Today, most automakers are investing heavily in autonomous technology and sharing platforms, anticipating what is, in ARK’s view, an inevitable shift to shared autonomous vehicles ( SAVs ). By way of contrast, in 2012 when a Google team met with various automakers to discuss partnerships to build self-driving cars, the automakers felt that […]
Bitcoin and Blockchain: Better Together
Adam Ludwin, founder of Chain.com, pointed out in an a16z podcast that people who say blockchain can exist without bitcoin are both completely correct and totally wrong. ARK’s view is the debate between Bitcoin and blockchain is misunderstood and overplayed, mostly due to its nascent nature, overlapping concepts and poorly understood jargon. Understanding the Bitcoin […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Took Off in 2015
Artificial intelligence — the stuff of science fiction—suddenly became real in 2015. Amazon shipped the Echo, its AI powered home assistant, to surprisingly positive reviews. The latest software from Microsoft and Google beat humans at image recognition. Tesla’s cars woke up one day and gained self-driving capability. And the latest software from Baidu is natively […]
Bitcoin: A Means of Exchange – Investigating Bitcoin 2/5
Investigating Bitcoin 1 | 5. A series of articles investigating the disruptive potential of bitcoin and evaluating it as a currency. The software underlying Bitcoin enables bitcoin as an elegant means of exchange. In this article, “Bitcoin” refers to the open source, decentralized technology platform upon which “bitcoin”, the digital currency, depends. Like cash, transactions […]
Machine Vision Gives Robots a New Outlook on Life
At Amazon, more than 15,000 Kiva robots work alongside employees on distribution center floors. At Lowe’s, robots guide customers to desired products. But why is the surge in robots taking place now? Key among the reasons is robots’ improved ability to sense and navigate through unfamiliar and changing environments. Particularly noteworthy are advances in machine vision […]
Are Google’s Golden Days Over as the World Goes Mobile?
As of the end of 2014, almost three billion people had internet access, with 2.3 billion on mobile broadband subscriptions. By 2017, more than half of the world’s population, or 3.5 billion people, are expected to own a smartphone, swamping the one billion in fixed broadband connections projected in the 2014 Internet Society Global Internet […]
PaaS: The Goldilocks of IaaS and SaaS
The International Data Corporation (IDC) projects the global public cloud computing market comprised of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS), will be $127B in 2018, more than double $56.6B in 2014.1 It is called the public cloud because through smart software, the same underlying hardware […]
Hadoop: Surveying the Scene
According to IDC, the quantity of data created, replicated, and consumed is doubling every two years. It is no wonder that in 2012 only two percent of worthwhile data was analyzed. During the next two days, the quantity of information produced globally will equal the total produced in the history of all time through 2003. […]
Containers: The Next Generation of Virtualization?
Although virtual machines (VMs) have been revolutionary for computing infrastructure, container technology may be on the verge of disrupting the disrupter. Companies with operations in the cloud are excited about containers because of superior resource allocation, deployment speed, and environment flexibility. Rackspace’s CTO, John Engrates, is describing containers as the next generation of virtualization. Prior to […]
Artificially Intelligent Psychologists
Many people are more comfortable talking to robot psychologists than to humans. A recent study measured how well patients interacted with an artificially intelligent psychologist named Ellie. Some participants were told that humans controlled the avatar with which they were interacting, while others believed the avatars were independent of human control. Interestingly, study participants were less […]
Quick Fire: The Spread of Smartphones and Tablets
In 2007 Apple sold over one million iPhones in the first full quarter of its availability. Today over two-thirds of the United States population owns a smartphone. While it took the cordless phone over twenty-five years to go from 10% to 40% saturation in the U.S., as shown below it took smartphones and tablets only […]
