Helen A.S. Popkin

Elon Musk recently declared that a tweet which cost him and Tesla $20 million in fines — each — was, in hindsight, “worth it.” This week, he told Twitter he deleted his Tesla job titles, and we’re wondering if we can do the same. No matter what he’s tweeting, we’re still talking about Tesla.

This year’s inductees reflect the booming VC interest as well as the growing variability in AI-focused startups making unique uses of existing technologies, others developing their own and many simply enabling other companies to add AI to their business model.