Apple acquired Turi, a machine learning software startup
Apple has acquired Turi (the former GraphLab and Dato), a machine learning software startup. The startup formerly went by the names GraphLab and Dato.
Carlos Guestrin, cofounder and chief executive of the startup, serves as Amazon professor of machine learning at the University of Washington. Amazon has brought on machine learning talent in the years since 2012, when Guestrin got the position. The startup employed some former Microsoft employees, so it's fascinating to see Apple acquire it.
Apple has acquired several other machine learning startups recently, including Emotient, Perceptio, and VocalIQ.
Turi's competitors included Databricks, H2O, and Neo4j, among others. But because Turi has added artificial intelligence into its technology, it faced competition in that area as well.