SoylentNews
SoylentNews is people
https://soylentnews.org/

takyon writes:

Microsoft acquires conversational AI startup Semantic Machines

Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Semantic Machines to bolster its conversational AI offerings — like Cortana, the Azure Bot Service, and Microsoft Cognitive Services. Semantic Machines works in areas like speech synthesis, deep learning, and natural language processing.

[...] In addition, Semantic Machines has assembled a cadre of experts in the conversational AI arena, like Larry Gillick, former chief scientist for Siri at Apple, and well-known researchers like UC Berkeley professor Dan Klein and Stanford University professor Percy Liang.

More details here. Also at The Verge.

Original Submission

1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
2. "Microsoft acquires conversational AI startup Semantic Machines" - https://venturebeat.com/2018/05/20/microsoft-acquires-conversational-ai-startup-semantic-machines/
3. "More details here" - https://venturebeat.com/2018/05/21/microsoft-spells-out-its-plans-for-semantic-machines/
4. "The Verge" - https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/21/17375482/microsoft-semantic-machines-acquisition-bots-cortana-human
5. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=26794

printed from SoylentNews, Microsoft Acquires Semantic Machines on 2024-04-25 10:16:09