Alexander Wong, an AI researcher at the University of Waterloo who helped build DarwinAI’s business, has joined as director of Apple’s AI group as part of the deal.
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Apple has bought artificial intelligence (AI) startup DarwinAI and added dozens of the Canadian company’s employees to its AI division, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.
The iPhone maker bought the company earlier this year, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter. The value of the deal was not mentioned in the report.
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The companies did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for comment.
Apple has been slower to adopt generative artificial intelligence, which can provide human-like responses to written prompts, than competitors such as Microsoft and Alphabet’s Google, which are incorporating such technologies into their products.
Alexander Wong, an AI researcher at the University of Waterloo who helped build DarwinAI’s business, joined Apple as director of its AI group as part of the deal, the report added.
According to Bloomberg, DarwinAI has developed AI technology for visually inspecting components during the manufacturing process and serves customers in numerous industries.
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