NEW YORK, 6 Oct. /Offset. TASS Kirill Volkov/. South Korea’s Samsung Corporation has reached agreement to acquire the American company, Viv Labs, which develops artificial intelligence programs. This was reported on Wednesday in its electronic version of the newspaper The Wall Street Journal.
Viv Labs is a startup founded by the developers of the voice assistant Siri, which in 2010 was acquired by Apple and then sets it on their devices. Viv Labs has developed software other voice assistant called Viv, which was presented to the public this year.
As the Director of technology division of Samsung, responsible for the mobile device, Indian Ri, the Corporation intends to start to equip its smartphones assistant Viv in the second half of 2017. The transaction amount was not disclosed.
According to one of the founders of Viv Labs Doug Kittlaus, the main advantage of Viv in front of Siri and many other apps of this type, is open source code that allows developers to freely make the program the desired change. He also said that if Siri can boast of only “a few dozen” possibilities, Viv will offer users and developers “hundreds of thousands” of different functions.
according to The Wall Street Journal, Samsung has entered into an agreement for the acquisition of Viv Labs on the background of increased competition between the leading manufacturers of gadgets in the development of artificial intelligence programs, including voice of helpers. On Tuesday, Google unveiled its “smart” voice speaker to control home devices Google Home that works on the basis of the electronic assistant Google Assistant.
In August it became known that Apple acquired a small startup company Turi involved in the development of artificial intelligence. Media reported that Apple could eventually integrate the achievements of Turi to your voice assistant Siri.
No comments:
Post a Comment