Silicon Valley giant's artificial intelligence acquisition battle

With the continuous advancement of artificial intelligence research and development, Silicon Valley technology giants are rushing to buy artificial intelligence startups. According to the research report of CB Insights, a market research company, since 2011, nearly 140 private companies or enterprises that are committed to promoting the research and development of artificial intelligence technology have been acquired by internationally renowned technology companies, and there are more than 40 in 2016 alone. Related ventures were acquired.

Compared with the AI ​​(artificial intelligence) boom that has just emerged in the domestic market, overseas technology giants have already launched a series of acquisitions to acquire artificial intelligence companies that have unique technological attainments. The result of big fish eating small fish is artificial intelligence. The core technology is gradually moving closer to several big technology giants such as Google, Apple, FaceBook, Amazon, and Intel. The hundreds of millions of dollars in acquisitions are not in the minority, even if the Internet giants such as domestic BAT are weak.

Through these acquired companies, we can also see which companies are extremely valuable in the wave of artificial intelligence.

In order to obtain the most advanced artificial intelligence solutions, giants in the Internet technology fields such as Google, IBM, Yahoo, Intel, Apple and Salesforce have quietly acquired private AI ventures in the past five years, which has triggered a The global AI acquisition boom.

According to CB Insights, Google is the most active member of the global corporate acquisition program. As of July 2016, it has acquired about 11 companies. Google has been a leader in the global artificial intelligence field in recent years.

Since 2011, among the many acquisitions of Google, the impact of the acquisition, including the acquisition of the University of Toronto's Department of Computer Science in 2013, deep learning and neutral network startup DNNresearch, this transaction helps Google its graphical search function A major upgrade was made. In 2014, Google spent about $600 million to acquire British startup DeepMind Technologies. This year, Google acquired Api.ai, an artificial intelligence platform for developing chat bots, and Moodstock, a visual search startup. Earlier this year, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that Google's goal is to provide each user with their own Google services.

Paying close attention to artificial intelligence technology, the technology giants that are acquiring in this area also include Intel and Apple. Apple, which has always been silent about acquiring corporate strategies, recently acquired artificial intelligence companies Turi and Tuplejump. In early 2016, Apple also acquired a startup called EmoTIent, which develops technologies that sense the user's expression. In addition, Intel alone acquired three artificial intelligence startups in Itseez, Nervana Systems and Movidius in 2016.

Twitter completed four acquisitions in 2016, and one of the most recent acquisitions was image processing company Magic Pony.

Amazon acquired Orbeus, an artificial intelligence startup with picture recognition technology, in April this year.

Salesforce joined the global AI corporate acquisition boom last year and successfully acquired Tempo AI. The company acquired two startups in 2016, namely MetaMind supported by Kaipeng Huaying and PredicTIonIO, an open source server provider for machine learning. .

Even South Korea's Samsung Electronics is not to be outdone, and recently acquired the startup Viv Labs to enter the artificial intelligence market. It is reported that Viv Labs is a startup that is committed to building an open artificial intelligence voice assistant platform. The founding member of the company is also the hero of Apple Siri behind the scenes. Their last company, after being acquired by Apple in 2010, helped Apple launch the Siri voice assistant. In 2012, several founding members founded the new company Viv Labs after Apple left.

Regardless of whether the AI ​​acquisition wave in recent years is just a capital bubble, the AI ​​era has already arrived. Here, we also take stock of some important acquisitions and related companies since 2016:

Important acquisitions in the field of artificial intelligence since 2011




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