# Professor Amy Webb's presentation on tech trends at SXSW is featured

1 Faculty News March 11, 2018 ![VentureBeat  logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_044601.jpg?itok=qL95Ew3-)>

Excerpt from [VentureBeat](https://venturebeat.com/2018/03/11/china-will-become-the-worlds-unchallenged-ai-hegemon-says-tech-trends-report/) -- "'These are the big nine companies that control the future of AI,' [Webb](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/amy-webb) said. 'They’re all partnering with academic institutions, the money’s flowing from here, there’s a free flowing of research going back and forth, and so essentially our next era of computing is in the hands of these nine companies and three of those companies — Tencent, Baidu and Alibaba — I would argue are probably the most important ones you should pay attention to.'"

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