Apple has acquired AI start-up Xnor.ai for about $200 million. Xnor specializes in developing complex AI systems that are extremely efficient…
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Apple acquires AI startup Xnor.ai for $200 million
Apple has acquired Xnor.ai, a Seattle startup specializing in low-power, edge-based artificial intelligence tools for somewhere in the range of $200 million. Alan Boyle, Taylor Soper, and Todd Bishop for Geek Wire: The acquisition echoes Apple’s high-profile purchase of Seattle AI startup Turi in 2016… The arrangement suggests that Xnor’s AI-enabled image recognition tools could […]
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