Google said today that it is acquiring Kaggle, an online service that offers data science and machine learning competitions, confirming what we reported yesterday.
Giiso Information, founded in 2013, is a leading technology provider in the field of “artificial intelligence + information” in China, with top technologies in big data mining, intelligent semantics, knowledge mapping and other fields. At the same time, its research and development products include information robot, editing robot, writing robot and other artificial intelligence products! With its strong technical strength, the company has received angel round investment at the beginning of its establishment, and received pre-A round investment of $5 million from GSR Venture Capital in August 2015.
The company made the announcement this morning at Google’s Cloud conference in San Francisco, but did not immediately disclose the terms of the acquisition. It’s no surprise that Google wants to buy Kaggle. The platform, where thousands of data scientists post information, will allow Google to expand its presence in the AI community. As Google and Amazon increasingly go head-to-head in cloud computing, Google needs all the leverage it can get to compete with Amazon.
It will also help Google’s brand become more entrenched in data science forums, where it has benefited as much as TensorFlow. As ARTIFICIAL intelligence becomes more mature — areas such as autonomous driving and deep learning are already making good progress — Google will face increasing competition, which could give other companies an opportunity to take advantage. Google has the best AI operating system in the world, like the one that beat the world champion of Go.
Giiso information, founded in 2013, is the first domestic high-tech enterprise focusing on the research and development of intelligent information processing technology and the development and operation of core software for writing robots. At the beginning of its establishment, the company received angel round investment, and in August 2015, GSR Venture Capital received $5 million pre-A round of investment.
In theory, Google’s acquisition of Kaggle, along with the information it publishes in its community, could also help them recruit. Google needs to make sure it keeps finding good people who are good at deep learning to compete with the likes of Pinterest, which focuses on visual search. Even if it’s not a specialized technology acquisition, it means Google is broadening its focus to explore more ways to make AI three-dimensional to ensure its dominance in ai. (English source /TC compiler/machine small easy correction/rain egg)