Artificial intelligence startups that let tech giants extravagantly

Recently, with a company called "Nuance" frequently reported in the newspapers, artificial intelligence has become a hot word. Nuance is a very successful voice recognition company, as a hidden behind the "to B" Company, it is known to the industry because of Apple Siri to provide technical support, but like other basic technology service providers, it also serves many manufacturers, Including Apple's direct rival Samsung: S-voice also used nuance technology. Samsung's intention to buy nuance has recently been heard, though it has not yet been confirmed, but nuance is taken for granted within the giant's "shopping list".

In recent years, around artificial intelligence, whether it's social Facebook or technology-driven Google or IBM, the tech giant is investing in the AI industry.

At the end of last year, Facebook set up a research laboratory for artificial intelligence, led by renowned AI scholars and Yann LeCun of New York University. Prior to August, it acquired the American Fort's voice recognition and machine translation start-up Mobile TECHNOLOGIES,MT, founded in 2001, and 2009 launched Jibbigo applications to provide automatic translation capabilities.

March 13, 2013, Google acquired the Canadian start-up company Dnnresearch. Dnnresearch is a three-person team from the University of Toronto's computer science department, Dnnresearch was founded by university Professor Geoffrey Hinton and his two graduate students in 2012. Hinton is a world-renowned expert in neural network, a leading figure in deep learning, and one of the world's outstanding researchers in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence, and his research results are very useful in speech recognition, computer vision and language comprehension. Google did not get any real products or services in the acquisition, the purpose of which is to the three-person team.

In the same year, Google continued to buy 8 consecutive robot companies, in the industry caused by a small wave, presumably many people are fresh.

January 2014, Google spent 650 million dollars to buy DeepMind. This is a three-year artificial intelligence start-up in London, and coincidentally, one of the three co-founders is a student of the Dnnresearch founder Geoffrey Hinton, mentioned above. It has been called "the last large independent dedicated artificial intelligence company", which has a team of about 50 people and has received more than 50 million dollars in funding, including Horizons ventures of Li Ka-shing. , like Dnnresearch, the company does not have any commercial products.

One thing that is particularly noteworthy is that Silicon Valley (and possibly the entire United States) has favored technology-driven companies, no matter how business performance is (or even a product without it), a start-up company can easily gain capital if it has an outstanding technology, and being acquired is a matter of minutes. The extent to which Silicon Valley invests and attaches to technology will no doubt make them the world's leading edge in artificial intelligence.

IBM acquired AI start-up Cognea in May 2014, with two co-founder Lisle Car Cooper, John Zacos and other team members joining IBM. Founded in 2005 by Kapolei and Zacos, Cognea has developed an artificial intelligence platform based on cognitive computing and dialogue, with two major products, namely, high IQ virtual Assistants Mycyber Twin and Cognea virtual assistants, which can handle complex tasks and master multiple languages. NASA is also a cognea.

Prior to this, IBM Watson also put the words to invest 1 billion U.S. knives to develop artificial intelligence technology.

In addition, including Microsoft launched chat robot "small ice", Baidu dug from Google to Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Laboratory director Wunda, Yahoo, Amazon also in artificial intelligence frequently have action. Giants have their own business areas of expertise, but in the face of artificial intelligence, their taste is surprisingly consistent.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)