{"id":3590,"date":"2021-03-26T17:52:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T21:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=3590"},"modified":"2021-03-29T11:28:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T15:28:50","slug":"apple-bought-more-ai-companies-than-anyone-else-between-2016-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/apple-bought-more-ai-companies-than-anyone-else-between-2016-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Bought More AI Companies Since 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>GlobalData shows that Apple has invested heavily in artificial intelligence, acquiring more AI companies than anyone else between 2016 and 2020, with Apple buying 25 AI companies over that five-year period, compared with 14 from Google.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of Apple&#8217;s acquisitions seem to serve the continued improvement of Siri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, 60 AI companies were acquired between 2016 and 2020, when data from Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook are combined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other Apple acquisitions in the past included Lighthouse AI, a home camera start-up that was bought in 2019, while Drive. ai, a multiple technology vendor related to vehicles, was acquired in the same year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As expected, Apple does not provide further details on the reasons for the acquisition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See the &lt;a href=&#8221;http:\/\/href=%22https\/\/9to5mac.com\/2021\/03\/25\/apple-bought-more-ai-companies-than-anyone-else-between-2016-and-2020\/&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; rel=&#8221;noopener&#8221; data-wplink-url-error=&#8221;true&#8221;&gt;original story&lt;\/a&gt; in 9to5Mac for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GlobalData shows that Apple has invested heavily in artificial intelligence, acquiring more AI companies than anyone else between 2016 and 2020, with Apple buying 25 AI companies over that five-year period, compared with 14 from Google. Most of Apple&#8217;s acquisitions seem to serve the continued improvement of Siri. In addition, 60 AI companies were acquired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3590"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3672,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions\/3672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}