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Founded by Paul Allen in 2014
Now 60 People
Research driven by Grand Challenge Problems
Focused on research tasks,
Agnostic on specific mechanisms
The number of scientific papers has doubled every nine years since World War II.
Semantic
index
Tractable
Inference
Search
“Show me all papers where…”
English query
“PMI” ≅ “Pointwise Mutual Information”
“Open IE” ⊂ “Information Extraction”
“What if a cure for an intractable cancer is hidden within the tedious reports on
thousands of clinical studies?
Allen Institute for Artificial IntelligenceWired Magazine, September, 2015