Like Google and Facebook, Twitter accelerates in artificial intelligence
The social network Twitter has just put his hand on the start-up Whetlab specializing in machine learning technologies. The microblogging platform already bought a start-up in the field in July. Other web giants, including Google and Facebook, are investing heavily in artificial intelligence.
The recent departure of Dick Costolo, the CEO of Twitter, does not prevent the micro blogging platform continue its shopping. The social network has announced having acquired Whetlab, a young start-up based in Cambridge and specialized in machine learning technologies (machine learning English).
Founded by a group of artificial intelligence researchers from the universities of Harvard, Toronto and Sherbrooke, the company says on its site that it has developed a technology that allows companies to more easily deploy in-house machine learning approaches.
The financial details of the transaction were not disclosed, but the Whetlab creators said they would close their activity on 5 July to join the Twitter team.
This is not the first time that the microblogging platform is interested in artificial intelligence technologies. Last July, the social network had already got hold of the start-up Madbits founded by Clement Farabet and Louis-Alexandre-Etezad Heydari, two French experts in deep learning, a branch of artificial intelligence. Through the integration of these new technologies, Twitter could detect more relevant tweets for users to provide better customization, improve ad targeting for advertisers or optimize its spam detection system.
The acquisition comes as Google and Facebook continue to invest in the field. In early June, the social network Mark Zuckerberg announced the opening of a research center for artificial intelligence to Paris to work on machine learning problems of natural language processing and reconnaissance images. On this occasion, a partnership was established with INRIA.
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