APPLE BUYS TUPLEJUMP

Apple has said it will be buying Tuplejump, which is said to be an Indo-US based machine learning startup. The startup builds software that specialises in processing and analysing big sets of data quickly.

According to Bloomberg, it’s a Hyderabad-based company that Apple acquired in June. It has about a dozen employees, according to report. And, further adds that the founder Rohit Rai started working for Apple in May and is based in Seattle.

According to Techcrunch, Apple stuck to its standard statement about how the company buys smaller companies from time to time. “Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans,” Apple spokesman Colin Johnson told the news site.

Apple is said to be particularly interested in an opensource project FiloDB that the startup is building to efficiently apply machine learning. “Tuplejump also built an open source search indexing system called Stargate that works with data stored in Cassandra and relies on the fundamentals of the Apache Lucene full-text search software,” adds VentureBeat.

AI has become a key factor among the core technologies that companies have begun to focus on, be it Apple, Google, Facebook or Microsoft. In case of Apple, this is the third AI-related acquisition after Seatle-based Turi and Emotient.