Apple has to some extent confirmed that the company has acquired Turi, a startup company in Seattle including offering predictive services from Amazon’s cloud and a machine learning platform for developers and researchers. It was Geek Wire that revealed this at the end of last week.
Apple sent both Geek Wire and other news services a statement that seems to be the company’s standard comment in connection with acquisitions.
– Apple buys occasionally smaller companies, and generally we discuss not our intentions or plans, the statement said.
The acquisition will also be confirmed by several other sources. According Geek Wire tells sources that the acquisition price will be around $ 200 million.
AI strengthening
There is little doubt that the acquisition is due to a desire to strengthen Apple’s focus on artificial intelligence, to meet the competition in this area from a variety of major players including Microsoft , Facebook and Google.
Among the many uses of Turis solutions, entered text, image and graph analysis, classification and pattern recognition of the company.
Turi is apparently not named after a woman, nor for a dog, such logo suggests. Instead, the name recognition of abbreviation of Alan Turing. The company named in date up to July this year, but had to change their name due to a trademark infringement. Until January 2015 the company was called GraphLab.
Open source
The company’s original copyright is claimed Geek Wire open source project that is named GraphLab. It was established in 2009 by Carlos Guestrin, one current professor at the University of Washington, who is also Turis CEO.
Apple will last eighteen months have purchased at least three other companies with technology in artificial intelligence, including Emotient, VocallQ and Perceptio.
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