Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Amazon Buys AI Startup Orbeus, Says Reports

Seattle-based Amazon.com has quietly acquired an artificial intelligence startup, Orbeus, which was developing image analysis software, according to reports today. Bloomberg, citing sources close to Orbeus--plus domain records--said that Amazon acquired Orbeus in the fall of 2015. Orbeus was developing automatic image recognition and classification technology. Amazon has yet to acknowledge the acquisition.