Anki, the San Francisco-based robotics and artificial intelligence startup, has announced that it will be closing its doors. Despite being featured on-stage at Apple events and raising more than $200 million in funding, the company says it has run out of money and options, forcing the company to shut down.
Facebook is working on a voice assistant to compete with Alexa and Siri, according to a new report from CNBC. Citing sources familiar with the project, the outlet says a special devision within the social media giant has been working on the initiative for more than a year.
If Apple continues to poach Google’s best experts like this guy, who was one of the search giant’s top minds in artificial intelligence, maybe it stands a chance of fixing Siri after all.
Apple has acquired Laserlike, a small machine learning startup based in Silicon Valley. The Information reports that the buyout happened late last year, and the team has joined Apple’s new artificial intelligence group.
Google’s eerie human-sounding AI helper that can make an actual phone call and make a restaurant reservation for you is coming to iPhone.
Apple has acquired a batch of US patents from a failed home security camera startup, Lighthouse AI, including patents related to depth-sensing technologies.
The promotion highlights the growing importance of machine learning and artificial intelligence at the Cupertino firm.
Apple has acquired a privacy-minded startup Silk Labs that was founded by Mozilla’s former Chief Technology Officer Andreas Gal.
Apple has a new chief that will oversee Apple’s strategy for artificial intelligence and machine learning, who’s also supposed to fixate many shortcomings of Apple’s underpowered digital assistant.
The same neural machine translation technology that powers online translations now works offline, letting you use Google’s Translate app when traveling abroad without a local data plan.
Google Photos will get one-tap actions, work with your favorite apps and devices, change black-and-white shots into color and help you remove background colors from an image.
The new app replaces Google’s existing Play Newsstand and News & Weather apps and includes AI-powered recommenations and features like Full Coverage.