| Date | Title | Description |
| 14.09.2017 | Facebook is the latest tech giant to hunt for AI talent in Canada | Facebook is turning its attention to Canada with a new AI research office in Montreal. Google and Microsoft already have outposts in the city and countless other tech companies, including Uber, have researchers based in Canada. McGill Unive... |
| 06.04.2017 | Microsoft Maluuba teaches management 101 to machines in its first paper since being acquired | In mid-January, the ongoing race for AI put Montreal-based Maluuba on our radar. Microsoft acquired the startup and its team of researchers to build better machine intelligence tools for analyzing unstructured text to enable more natural hu... |
| 26.01.2017 | How Silicon Valley is teaching language to machines | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The dream of building computers or robots that co... |
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| 13.01.2017 | Microsoft acquires research-oriented deep learning startup Maluuba | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Ma... |
| 13.01.2017 | Microsoft Deepens AI Portfolio with Maluuba Buy | News Microsoft Deepens AI Portfolio with Maluuba Buy By Jeffrey SchwartzJanuary 13, 2017
Microsoft on Friday announced its agreement to acquire Maluuba, a Montreal-based startup that Microsoft says has one of the world's most advanced natur... |
| 13.01.2017 | Microsoft Deepens AI Portfolio with Maluuba Buy | News Microsoft Deepens AI Portfolio with Maluuba Buy By Jeffrey SchwartzJanuary 13, 2017
Microsoft on Friday announced its agreement to acquire Maluuba, a Montreal-based startup that Microsoft says has one of the world's most advanced natur... |
| 13.01.2017 | Microsoft acquires Maluuba, a startup focused on general artificial intelligence | Microsoft has acquired Canadian startup Maluuba, a company founded by University of Waterloo grads Kaheer Suleman and Sam Pasupalak that also participated in TechCrunch’s 2012 San Francisco Startup Battlefield competition. Maluuba focuses o... |
| 13.01.2017 | In AI Race, Microsoft Snaps Up Machine Literacy Startup Maluuba | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The Montreal-based startup Microsoft is acquiring aims to teach machines to read so they can get smarter on their own.
The acquisition of Maluuba, a five-year-old startup, add... |
| 13.01.2017 | Microsoft acquires research-oriented deep learning startup Maluuba | Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Maluuba, a research-oriented startup focusing on deep learning, a type of artificial intelligence (AI). As part of the deal, one of Maluuba’s advisors, deep learning luminary Yoshua Bengio, wil... |
| 26.10.2016 | Toronto is proving to be a hotbed for machine learning | If you’re interested in learning about, investing in, or building a company involved in machine learning, Toronto should be on your radar. Here are five reasons why:
1. The Geoff Hinton Lab Mafia
If you’ve been following the industry, you l... |
| 26.10.2016 | Toronto is proving to be a hotbed for machine learning | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
If you’re interested in learning about, investing... |
| 23.09.2016 | Maluuba wants to make chatbots smarter by teaching them how to read | Maluuba launched its first Siri-like personal assistant at TC Disrupt San Francisco four years ago. Since then, the company has raised $11 million and has licensed its technology to a number of handset manufacturers that now use it to power... |
| 20.01.2016 | Maluuba Raises $6.2M in Series A Funding | Maluuba, a Waterloo, Ontario, Canada-based machine-learning company, raised C$9m ($6.2m) in Series A funding. |
| 20.01.2016 | Maluuba Raises $6.2M in Series A Funding | Maluuba, a Waterloo, Ontario, Canada-based machine-learning company, raised C$9m ($6.2m) in Series A funding.
Backers included Emerillon Capital, Nautilus Ventures and undisclosed strategic investors. In conjunction with the funding, Brian ... |
| 20.01.2016 | Daily funding roundup - January 20, 2016 | Khazanah Nasional invested $160M in WeLab; LendUp raised $150M; Maluuba secured $6.2M funding
Maluuba, a machine learning company that offers a Siri-like experience for Android devices, today announced that it has secured $9 million CAD (ab... |
| 20.01.2016 | Maluuba raises $6.2M Series A for machine learning | Supporting mobile technology companies like LG and Qualcomm, Maluuba picks up new funding
Maluuba, a machine learning company that offers a Siri-like experience for Android devices, today announced that it has secured $9 million CAD (about ... |
| 28.10.2013 | Voicesphere Brings Voice Control To Facebook, Instagram & Others, Enterprise Apps Coming Next | At TechCrunch Disrupt Europe in Berlin today, Voicesphere is launching a platform for voice-enabling consumer and enterprise apps and making them available in a Siri-like environment based on natural language processing.
The service was fou... |
| 17.06.2013 | Microsoft Improves Windows Phone Voice Recognition: 2X Faster, 15% More Accurate | Google may have acquired Geoffrey Hinton’s DNNresearch and is now using his technologies to power its Google+ photo search features, but the academic work Hinton did on deep neural networks (DNN) is now also helping Microsoft to improve its... |
| 20.05.2013 | Siri Competitor Maluuba Brings Sports Results And TV Schedules To Its Android And Windows Phone Apps | Maluuba, the Waterloo, Canada-based Siri competitor and TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 Battlefield finalist, today announced that it has added two new features to its voice-powered personal assistant app for Android and Windows Phone: sports an... |
| 09.02.2013 | You Won’t See Facebook’s Graph Search On iPhone Or Android Anytime Soon | Editor’s note: Tareq Ismail is the UX lead at Maluuba, a personal assistant app for Android and Windows Phone that was a Battlefield participant at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012. Follow him on Twitter @tareqismail.
The release of Facebook’s Gr... |
| 10.01.2013 | Talking To Your TV, Your Car, Maybe Your Fridge? Maluuba Is Connecting Users To Their Favorite Devices By Voice | You might remember Maluuba from TechCrunch Disrupt, where the company launched its Personal Assistant app for Android last year, combining voice recognition and natural language processing with search to create a really smart way to easily ... |
| 12.12.2012 | Android-Based Siri Alternative Maluuba Gets Into Online Shopping, Partners With Best Buy And Walmart | TechCrunch Disrupt alumni Maluuba is launching the latest version of its Siri-like Android app in the Google Play store today. The major new feature in this latest release is the addition of shopping-related queries and results to the 18 ot... |
| 14.11.2012 | Maluuba Launches Natural Language Processing API, Brings Siri-Like Powers To Any App | Maluuba, the TC Disrupt finalist and Android-based Siri competitor today has unveiled a major new platform play, via its natural language processing (NLP) API for app developers. The Maluuba team believes that NLP is the next logical interf... |
| 31.10.2012 | Android-Based Siri Challenger Maluuba Launches Full Version In India, Partners With OpenTable And Locu In U.S. | Maluuba, the Android-based Siri competitor and TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco finalist, just announced that it has partnered with OpenTable and the menu and restaurant hours database Locu. Maluuba is also launching a full version of its a... |
| 10.10.2012 | Android-Based Siri Alternative Maluuba Goes International, Looks To Raise Up To $10M | Maluuba, the Siri-like personal assistant that launched at TechCrunch Disrupt SF earlier this year, just announced the launch of its Maluuba International edition. Until now, the service was only available in the U.S., Australia, UK and Ire... |
| 01.10.2012 | Samsung Ventures-Backed Maluuba Launches Its ‘Siri For Android’ In The U.K., Australia, And Ireland | Lots of third-party alternatives to Apple’s Siri exist, and the promise of an AI-assisted ‘personal assistant’ has been the talk of futurists for what seems like an eternity (the tardy time keeping is in the job description). But one such o... |
| 11.09.2012 | Maluuba Wants To Challenge Apple’s Siri With Its “Do Engine” | Ever since Apple launched its voice-driven personal assistant Siri, a slew of clones have appeared on the scene. Most of these, however, clearly show that Siri was the result of a massive research project that isn’t easy to replicate. Maluu... |
| 12.05.2009 | Stepping up graphics war, Intel invests $12 million in German research lab | If Intel is going to get anywhere chasing after the graphics chip business, it has to invest heavily in research and development. The world’s biggest chip maker took a step in that direction today as it announced it is investing $12 million... |
