Apple acquires AI startup Perceptio: Bloomberg
06 Oct 2015
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Apple has acquired Perceptio, a small startup focused on artificial intelligence, Bloomberg reported.
Founded by Nicolas Pinto and Zak Stone, Perceptio is into development of technology that would allow smartphone companies to create advanced artificial intelligence systems "without needing to share as much user data" in the cloud.
Perceptio aims to develop techniques to run AI image-classification systems on smartphones, without drawing from large external data repositories.
That matched with Apple's strategy of trying to minimise its usage of customer data and process data on the device.
The reported said both Stone and Pinto were established AI researchers who specialise in creating image-recognition systems using deep learning.
