<s>
Vicarious	B-Application
was	O
an	O
artificial	B-Application
intelligence	I-Application
company	O
based	O
in	O
the	O
San	O
Francisco	O
Bay	O
Area	O
,	O
California	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Vicarious	B-Application
describes	O
its	O
technology	O
as	O
"	O
a	O
turnkey	O
robotics	O
solution	O
integrator	O
using	O
artificial	B-Application
intelligence	I-Application
to	O
automate	O
tasks	O
too	O
complex	O
and	O
versatile	O
for	O
traditional	O
automations	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Before	O
co-founding	O
Vicarious	B-Application
,	O
Phoenix	O
was	O
Entrepreneur	O
in	O
Residence	O
at	O
Founders	O
Fund	O
and	O
CEO	O
of	O
Frogmetrics	O
,	O
a	O
touchscreen	O
analytics	O
company	O
he	O
co-founded	O
through	O
the	O
Y	O
Combinator	O
incubator	O
program	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
company	O
launched	O
in	O
February	O
2011	O
with	O
funding	O
from	O
Founders	O
Fund	O
,	O
Dustin	O
Moskovitz	O
,	O
Adam	O
D’Angelo	O
(	O
former	O
Facebook	B-Application
CTO	O
and	O
co-founder	O
of	O
Quora	O
)	O
,	O
Felicis	O
Ventures	O
,	O
and	O
Palantir	O
co-founder	O
Joe	O
Lonsdale	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
An	O
additional	O
undisclosed	O
amount	O
was	O
later	O
contributed	O
by	O
Amazon.com	B-Application
CEO	O
Jeff	O
Bezos	O
,	O
Yahoo	B-Application
!	I-Application
</s>
<s>
co-founder	O
Jerry	O
Yang	O
,	O
Skype	B-Application
co-founder	O
Janus	O
Friis	O
and	O
Salesforce.com	B-Application
CEO	O
Marc	O
Benioff	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Vicarious	B-Application
is	O
developing	O
machine	O
learning	O
software	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
computational	O
principles	O
of	O
the	O
human	O
brain	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
October	O
22	O
,	O
2013	O
,	O
beating	O
CAPTCHA	O
,	O
Vicarious	B-Application
announced	O
its	O
model	O
was	O
reliably	O
able	O
to	O
solve	O
modern	O
CAPTCHAs	O
,	O
with	O
character	O
recognition	O
rates	O
of	O
90%	O
or	O
better	O
when	O
trained	O
on	O
one	O
style	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
He	O
pointed	O
out	O
that	O
50	O
similar	O
claims	O
to	O
that	O
of	O
Vicarious	B-Application
had	O
been	O
made	O
since	O
2003	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Vicarious	B-Application
later	O
published	O
their	O
findings	O
in	O
peer-reviewed	O
journal	O
Science	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Vicarious	B-Application
has	O
indicated	O
that	O
its	O
AI	B-Application
was	O
not	O
specifically	O
designed	O
to	O
complete	O
CAPTCHAs	O
and	O
its	O
success	O
at	O
the	O
task	O
is	O
a	O
product	O
of	O
its	O
advanced	O
vision	O
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Because	O
Vicarious	B-Application
's	O
algorithms	O
are	O
based	O
on	O
insights	O
from	O
the	O
human	O
brain	O
,	O
it	O
is	O
also	O
able	O
to	O
recognize	O
photographs	O
,	O
videos	O
,	O
and	O
other	O
visual	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
