Cloud Computing: IBM Buys Deep Learning Startup To Boost Watson
March 6, 2015
Grazed from CIOToday. Author: Jef Cozza.
Big Blue moved to beef up its Watson artificial intelligence operation with the acquisition of AlchemyAPI, a machine-learning systems maker. Announced Wednesday, the deal aims to bring 40,000 new developers into IBM’s Watson developer community.
IBM said it plans to integrate AlchemyAPI’s deep-learning technology into the core of its Watson platform, augmenting Watson’s abilities to identifiy hierarchies and understand relationships within large sets of data Relevant Products/Services. The company said it expects the new technology to significantly improve Watson’s learning capabilities. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed…
Cognitive Computing Capabilities
AlchemyAPI was founded in 2005. Its API services are designed to help developers build artificial intelligence applications with advanced data analysis capabilities such as taxonomy categorization, entity and keyword extraction, sentiment analysis and Web page cleaning. According to AlchemyAPI, its software Relevant Products/Services platform already processes billions of API calls per month across 36 countries and in eight different languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish…
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