Friday, 5 August 2016

$200M acquisition of Turi proves Apple's dead serious about AI


Showing its serious about improving its virtual assistant, as well as the company's online storefronts, Apple purchased Seattle-based AI/machine learning startup Turi today for a reported $200 million. Details are still hard to come but so far we know that the Turi team plans to stay in Seattle, joining Apple's growing engineering outpost in the city. Turi, formerly Dato (and GraphLab before that), has a number of products designed to help developers in creating machine learning and AI solutions capable of scaling as needed - GraphLab Create, Turi Machine Learning Platform, Turi Distributed and Turi Predictive Services. It was also actively…

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