  Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most momentous technologies of our
time. Thus, it is of major importance to know which stakeholders influence AI
research. Besides researchers at universities and colleges, researchers in
companies have hardly been considered in this context. In this article, we
consider how the influence of companies on AI research can be made measurable
on the basis of scientific publishing activities. We compare academic- and
company-authored AI publications published in the last decade and use
scientometric data from multiple scholarly databases to look for differences
across these groups and to disclose the top contributing organizations. While
the vast majority of publications is still produced by academia, we find that
the citation count an individual publication receives is significantly higher
when it is (co-)authored by a company. Furthermore, using a variety of
altmetric indicators, we notice that publications with company participation
receive considerably more attention online. Finally, we place our analysis
results in a broader context and present targeted recommendations to safeguard
a harmonious balance between academia and industry in the realm of AI research.
