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Microsoft acquires deep learning startup Maluuba

by Harry Shum blogs.microsoft.com published 2017-01-13

Today is an exciting day for the advancement of AI at Microsoft. We have agreed to acquire Maluuba, a Montreal-based company with one of the world’s most impressive deep learning research labs for natural language understanding. Maluuba’s expertise in deep learning and reinforcement learning for question-answering and…

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