It was last May that the general public
was able to discover an assistant equipped with “artificial intelligence” (AI) of
new generation:Viv. On the other hand, its creators, a
team of around ten people, is not unknown since
three of them are the researchers behind Siri.
While
the pre-summer presentationseemed like a way of telling future people
buyers: “we are ready, make an offer”, we have just learned
whatit was Samsung which put its hand into its wallet to buy back the
technology.
The price paid for the acquisition is not known, but we know that Google and
Facebook had also approached the start-up without it happening.
materializes.
This acquisition provides Samsung's mobile division with technology
of valuable artificial intelligence while Apple has Siri, Google comes
to launch its "assistant" and that Amazon has powerful technology
implemented in its Echo speaker. Beyond the mobile aspect, Samsung has
indicated that the technology could be used in other areas.
While Apple seems to be making progress in the area of intelligence
artificial, we see it with the new photo innovations in particular, we can only
regret that these talent seekers had to leave Apple to develop
the new generation of their assistant, then Apple was unable to restore the
get your hands on it before a competitor does!
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Viv
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By : Keleops AG
founder of the site. Computer engineer and Internet specialist where he has held various positions of responsibility, Laurent has been passionate about mobility since the arrival of "PDAs" in the 90s. Journalist for 4 years for the magazine Team Palmtops (Posse Presse) and author of several books on the iPad published by Pearson.
