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Apple Snaps AI Startup WaveOne Specializing In Compressing Videos

Apple Snaps AI Startup WaveOne Specializing In Compressing Videos

蘋果快照 AI 啟動 WaveOne 專門從事壓縮視頻
Benzinga ·  2023/03/28 00:35
  • Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) has quietly snapped U.S. startup WaveOne, which was developing AI algorithms for compressing video.
  • WaveOne shut down its website around January, and several former employees, including one of WaveOne's co-founders, joined Apple's various machine learning groups, TechCrunch reports.
  • The financial terms of the deal remain undisclosed.
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  • WaveOne's former head of sales and business development, Bob Stankosh, announced the deal in a LinkedIn post a month back.
  • Meta' Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META) former AI officials Lubomir Bourdev and Oren Rippel founded WaveOne in 2016.
  • WaveOne's main innovation was a "content-aware" video compression and decompression algorithm that could run on the AI accelerators built into many phones and an increasing number of PCs.
  • WaveOne said its hardware-agnostic approach could reduce the size of video files by as much as half, with better gains in more complex scenes.
  • Before the Apple acquisition, WaveOne drew $9 million from backers, including Khosla Ventures, Vela Partners, Incubate Fund, Omega Venture Partners, and Blue Ivy.
  • In 2022, Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) DeepMind acclimated a machine learning algorithm leading to a 4% reduction in the video-sharing service's data needs to stream to users.
  • Apple held $51.4 billion in cash and equivalents as of December 31.
  • Price Action: AAPL shares traded lower by 0.95% at $158.74 on the last check Monday.
  • 蘋果公司 (NASDAQ: AAPL) 已經悄悄地搶購了美國創業公司 WaveOne, 該公司正在開發用於壓縮視頻的 AI 算法.
  • TechCrunch 報道，WaveOne 於 1 月左右關閉了其網站，包括 WaveOne 的聯合創始人之一在內的幾位前員工加入了蘋果公司的各種機器學習組。
  • 交易的財務條款仍未披露。
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  • WaveOne 的銷售和業務發展的前負責人鮑勃·斯坦科什，在 LinkedIn 後一個月前宣布了這筆交易。
  • 元平台公司 （納斯達克：梅塔）前人工智能官員盧博米爾·布爾傑夫和奧倫·瑞佩爾在 2016 年成立 WaveOne。
  • WaveOne 的主要創新是一種「內容感知」視頻壓縮和解壓縮算法，可以在許多手機內置的 AI 加速器和越來越多的 PC 上運行。
  • WaveOne 表示，其與硬件無關的方法可以將視頻文件的大小減少一半，並在更複雜的場景中獲得更好的收益。
  • 在蘋果收購之前，WaveOne 從支持者那裡獲得了 9 萬美元，包括 Khosla 合資企業，維拉合作夥伴，孵化基金，歐米茄創業合作夥伴和藍色常春藤。
  • 在二零二年 字母公司 （納斯達克：古克）（納斯達克：古爾） 深心 適應機器學習演算法，將視訊共用服務串流至使用者的資料需求減少 4%。
  • 截至 12 月 31 日，蘋果持有 514 億美元的現金及等價物。
  • 價格行動： 上次檢查星期一，AAPL 股價下跌 0.95%，報 158.74 美元。

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