Apple Acquires Silk Labs To Focus On AI-Based Personal Assistants
In a move to improve their artificial intelligence- based personal assistants and another internet of things projects, Apple Inc has acquired a San Francisco-based startup. Silk Labs is doing some cutting-edge work on next-generation visual and audio intelligence to connected products using deep neural networks.
Reports have suggested that Apple completed the takeover relatively quietly and has not disclosed the sum publicly yet. Silk Labs has been founded by noted personalities like Andreas Gal, the former CTO of Mozilla and Michael Vines from Qualcomm.