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Uber Buys a Mysterious Startup to Make Itself an AI Company

Uber Buys a Mysterious Startup to Make Itself an AI Company

Uber Buys a Mysterious Startup to Make Itself an AI Company

Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer

December 7, 20169m 4s

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Uber has acquired Geometric Intelligence, a two-year-old artificial intelligence startup that vows to surpass the deep learning systems under development at internet giants like Google and Facebook. But as this tiny AI lab slips into Uber’s increasingly vast and ambitious operation, the startup is still tight-lipped on what its technology actually looks like.

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