Apple buys AI firm Turi


GeekWire:

Turi lets developers build apps with machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities that automatically scale and tune. Its products --which include the Turi Machine Learning Platform, GraphLab Create, Turi Distributed, and Turi Predictive Services -- are largely designed to help large and small organizations make better sense of data. Use cases include recommendation engines, fraud detection, predicting customer churn, sentiment analysis, and customer segmentation.

The deal is rumored to be around $200 million, which makes it a major aquisition for Apple. It seems like Apple has been working to beef up Sir's AI while protecting privacy.