{"id":77284,"date":"2017-01-13T13:01:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T18:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techvibes.com\/?p=77284"},"modified":"2017-01-13T12:54:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T17:54:37","slug":"microsoft-acquires-deep-learning-startup-maluuba","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/microsoft-acquires-deep-learning-startup-maluuba","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Acquires Deep Learning Startup Maluuba to Advance Democratization of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft has acquired Maluuba<\/a>, a Montreal-based company with a deep learning research lab for natural language understanding.<\/p>\n

“Maluuba\u2019s expertise in deep learning and reinforcement learning for question-answering and decision-making systems will help us advance our strategy to democratize AI and to make it accessible and valuable to everyone\u2014consumers, businesses and developers,” says Harry Shum, Executive Vice President, Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Research Group.<\/p>\n

Maluuba\u2019s vision is to advance toward a more general artificial intelligence by creating literate machines that can think, reason and communicate like humans.<\/p>\n

“Imagine a future where, instead of frantically searching through your organization\u2019s directory, documents or emails to find the top tax-law experts in your company, for example, you could communicate with an AI agent that would leverage Maluuba\u2019s machine comprehension capabilities to immediately respond to your request,” Shum says. “The agent would be able to answer your question in a company security-compliant manner by having a deeper understanding of the contents of your organization\u2019s documents and emails, instead of simply retrieving a document by keyword matching, which happens today.”<\/p>\n

Maluuba<\/a> was founded by Sam Pasupalak and Kaheer Suleman, who attended artificial intelligence classes together at the University of Waterloo.<\/p>\n