Google today said it is acquiring Kaggle, a web based service that hosts information science and laptop studying competitions, confirming what sources instructed us when we stated the acquisition the day before today.
the company made the announcement at its Google Cloud subsequent convention this morning in San Francisco, whereas not disclosing the phrases of the acquisition. but it’s not all that stunning that Google would want to snap it up. With hundreds of lots of information scientists on the platform, it would provide Google the quick potential to develop its attain throughout the AI community. as it an increasing number of goes head-to-head with Amazon on the cloud computing front, it’s going to want as so much of an part as it will probably get.
This, too, will help Google get its model more entrenched throughout the knowledge science neighborhood — although it’s already a staple thanks to its initiatives like TensorFlow. Google is going through growing competitors because the AI area breaks into verticals, like self sustaining driving and deep finding out, opening up holes that smaller and bigger corporations can make the most. that might theoretically eliminate Google from the conversation as the corporate with the most effective AI operations, which is legendary for watershed AI moments like beating the Go world champion.
buying Kaggle, and its mindshare within the community, can even most likely assist with recruiting. Google desires to ensure it keeps snapping up one of the best talent that specializes in deep studying, competing with other corporations like Pinterest (which specializes in visual search). even if this isn’t a more specialized tech acquisition, it means that Google is broadening its center of attention to explore more perpendicular approaches to verify its dominance in AI.
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