According to foreign media reports such as GeekWire and AppleInsider, Apple has already acquired machine learning and artificial intelligence startup Turi for US$200 million.
Turi is located in Seattle and has launched GraphLabCreate, Turi machine learning platform, TuriDistributed, and TuriPredictive Services. These products are mainly used to develop solutions such as recommendation engines, sentiment analysis, and fraud detection. It is understood that after the acquisition of Apple Turi team will continue to stay in Seattle.
For the news, Apple said, "Companies will acquire smaller technology companies from time to time. We usually do not discuss the purpose or plan." Although Apple did not respond positively, but the industry believes that its main intention to acquire Turi is to strengthen Siri's technology. ability. In the last two years, Apple has been making acquisitions of artificial intelligence companies such as VocalIQ and Perceptio, voice artificial intelligence companies acquired last year, and Emotient, which was acquired in January this year and can be used to interpret facial expressions.
Turi founder and professor of the University of Washington Carlos Guestrin declined to comment.
It is worth noting that Turi is a legendary company. It was originally Gustrine's open source project led by Carnegie Mellon University. But in 2012, Gustrine took his project to the University of Washington. At this time, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos provided $2 million in funding for Gusterlin's machine learning program.
With funding sources, Gusterlin separated the project from the school and established GraphLab. Just a year later, GraphLab successfully completed a $6.75 million Series A round of financing. In January last year, the company again received $18.5 million in financing and was renamed Dato. However, because of this name, the company was also lodged with Datto's complaint and it was only recently officially renamed Turi.
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