Numenta: Inventing and (or) Commercializing AI
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Publication Date:
June 30, 2016
Industry:
Technology
Source:
Harvard Business School
In March 2016, Donna Dubinsky (co-founder and CEO) and Jeff Hawkins (co-founder) were struggling with a key question: could Numenta be successful in both creating fundamental technology and building a commercial business? Located in Redwood City, CA, Numenta was founded in 2005 to expand Hawkins’ research on the human brain, with the goal of “reverse engineering the neocortex” and then creating machines based on biological principals. Ultimately, Hawkins believed that Numenta could be a catalyst in creating intelligent machines that would lay the foundation for the next generation of computing with potentially broad ranging commercial opportunities.
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