Apple has Purchased a Company Focused on Artificial Intelligence

[RaduTyrsina]

A fresh report coming from Bloomberg is informing that Apple has purchased Perceptio, a small startup focused on artificial intelligence. Founded by Nicolas Pinto and Zak Stone, the company was developing technology that would let smartphone companies create advanced artificial intelligence systems "without needing to share as much user data" in the cloud. Here are some more details:

"Perceptio's goals were to develop techniques to run AI image-classification systems on smartphones, without having to draw from large external repositories of data. That fits Apple's strategy of trying to minimize its usage of customer data and do as much processing as possible on the device."

The founders of the company are established artificial intelligence researchers who specialize in creating image-recognition systems using deep learning. According to Bloomberg, the two experts were working on privacy-based artificial intelligence, and facial recognition technology before being acquired by Apple.

Apple confirmed the purchase with its standard acquisition statement: "Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans."

Source: Bloomberg