The companies are going nuts for
providing the personal assistant on the Smartphones. The Apple has Siri and
from Now on Intel has Ginger. The Intel has Acquired an Artificial Intelligence
holdings, the chipmaker has acquired some selected assets from Israel’s Ginger
Software in the area of natural language processing and understanding. These
assets are acquired to enhance with third parties to create customized personal
assistant and the acquisition has worth $30 million. The Israeli Ginger
Software has funded by investor like Li Ka- Shing’s, Horizon Ventures and after
the acquisition Intel says the Ginger will continue to operate as the separate division
and will also focus on its remaining business like intelligent grammar and spell
check utilities. This is not the first time when ginger going through bad time
but previously when their chairperson leaves the company to serve at Facebook Israel.
The acquisition has firstly published on Hebrew Publications and it confirmed
by Ginger itself.
TechCrunch Says “On May 8, Intel acquired natural language processing tools and
applications assets from Ginger Software, and it is hiring up to 16 engineers
associated with this business,” an Intel spokesperson further elaborated. “We
are not disclosing details about how Intel might use the Ginger Software technologies
at this time and we are not disclosing terms of the deal. Please note – We’re
acquiring the assets and engineering team associated with Ginger Software’s
natural language processing tools and applications. We aren’t acquiring Ginger
Software’s Grammar and Spell Checker.”
The company has many experts in the
IT field including the founder, CEO and Chief Scientist Yael Karov; she is a
expert in Natural Language processing, co-founder and CTO too. The group also
has NLP expert Micha Breakstone, and a man who founded and invented several
tech under the guidance of Karov.
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