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Microsoft Buying AI Startup Maluuba
- Fortune, Friday, January 13, 2017 2:33 PM
Microsoft has announced the acquisition of AI startup Maluuba. The Canadian company specializes in natural language-processing technology. “As part of the plan,
Microsoft will also get renowned AI expert Yoshua Bengio aboard as an advisor,” Fortune notes. “Bengio, who serves in that capacity already for Maluuba, is professor of computer
science and operations research at the University of Montreal and heads the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms.”
