The Mountain View firm comes to redeem DeepMind Technologies, a startup
specializing in artificial intelligence applications, a price located around
$ 400 million, according to the magazine of information hi-tech Re/Code.
This Google acquired following the buyout of Boston Dynamics (robotics) in
December and more recently Nest Labs (home automation), which confirms the
appetite of the giant of the web for solutions outside its immediate
perimeter.
DeepMind Technologies is a company based in London that develops "tools
relying on the combined technologies of machine learning (Machine Learning) and
neuroscience of systems, to create learning for a wide use algorithms",
according to the brief presentation available on its web site.
Enhance Google Voice?
Always on its site, the company, which has
benefited from multiple investments in recent years, precise specialize in the
fields of video games, e-commerce and simulations.
The contribution of technologies developed by DeepMind Technologies could be
used to enhance the features of Google Voice, the personal assistant based on
voice recognition, used on Android, although the possibilities of integration to
Google products are varied.