Twitter acquisition deep learning start-up company Madbits

This week, Twitter bought a computer vision start-up company, Madbits, based on deep learning, foreign media reported. This is followed by Google, Yahoo, Dropbox and Pinterest, another computer vision-related acquisitions. However, the purchase price has not been disclosed, the outside world forecast the acquisition may not be too high.

Madbits The company was founded by the director of the Facebook Artificial Intelligence lab, Yann LeCun, a former two students, and developed a vision intelligence technology that automatically understands, organizes, and extracts media content information. This computer vision technology based on depth learning has been developed and is being tested.

There are countless images on Twitter every day. The acquisition of Madbits can help Twitter launch features such as image search, refine search rankings based on image content, and even better understand people's tweets by analyzing images. Others argue that the acquisition could help Twitter gain an edge in E-commerce and open up the electricity market.

Deep learning is a kind of artificial intelligence technology, has been born for decades, but only in recent years, the significant progress in computer vision, text analysis and speech recognition accuracy has been promoted, is considered to be the future of Silicon Valley technology enterprises. In the field of computer vision for example, nearly one or two years of acquisitions, personnel changes constantly. Earlier this year, QualComm acquired image recognition company Kooaba, Pinterest acquisition of object recognition company Visualgraph. And in the last two years the field of acquisition includes: Yahoo acquisition depth Learning company Lookflow and image labeling company Iqengine;google Acquisition Mobile image recognition company Viewdle and deep Learning company dnnresearch;2012 year September Dropbox Acquisition of image labeling company Anchovi Labs Facebook acquired face recognition company Face.com.

In terms of personnel, Google dug up the University of Toronto from the depth of learning, Daniel Geoffrey Hinton;facebook finished the New York University legend Yann LeCun, the establishment of Artificial intelligence research Institute; Senior scientist Yukei.