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Apple Snaps AI Startup WaveOne Specializing In Compressing Videos

Apple Snaps AI Startup WaveOne Specializing In Compressing Videos

Apple Snaps 人工智能初创公司 WaveOne 专门压缩视频
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.
  • 苹果公司 纳斯达克股票代码：AAPL）已悄悄收购了美国初创公司WaveOne，该公司正在开发用于压缩视频的人工智能算法。
  • TechCrunch报道，WaveOne在1月左右关闭了其网站，包括WaveOne的联合创始人之一在内的几位前雇员加入了苹果的各种机器学习小组。
  • 该交易的财务条款仍未公开。
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  • 一个月前，WaveOne的前销售和业务发展主管鲍勃·斯坦科什在LinkedIn帖子中宣布了这笔交易。
  • Meta'平台公司 （纳斯达克股票代码：META）前人工智能官员卢博米尔·布尔杰夫和奥伦·里佩尔于2016年创立了WaveOne。
  • WaveOne的主要创新是一种 “内容感知” 的视频压缩和解压缩算法，该算法可以在许多手机和越来越多的PC中内置的人工智能加速器上运行。
  • WaveOne表示，其不受硬件限制的方法可以将视频文件的大小减少多达一半，而在更复杂的场景中则可以获得更好的收益。
  • 在收购苹果之前，WaveOne从支持者那里获得了900万美元，包括Khosla Ventures、Vela Partners、Incubate Fund、Omega Venture Partners和Blue Ivy
  • 在 2022 年， Alphabet （纳斯达克股票代码：GOOG）（纳斯达克股票代码：GOOGL） 深层心灵 调整了机器学习算法，使视频共享服务向用户传输的数据需求减少了4％。
  • 截至12月31日，苹果持有514亿美元的现金及等价物。
  • 价格走势： 周一的最后一张支票中，AAPL股价下跌0.95％，至158.74美元。

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