Last Friday, Microsoft announced the acquisition of Maluuba, an artificial intelligence startup in the United States. The specific purchase amount was not announced.
It is reported that Maluuba is headquartered in Montreal. The company's main technology is natural language understanding, which is good at deep learning and reinforcement learning in question and answer and decision systems. After the acquisition, Maluuba founders Sam Pasupalak and Kaheer Suleman joined Microsoft's Artificial Intelligence and Microsoft Research Division, and company consultant Yoshua Bengio became a Microsoft consultant.
According to Microsoft, Maluuba and Microsoft's vision is to create a cultured machine that thinks, reasones, and communicates like humans.
The following is the speech of Shen Xiangyang, the global executive vice president of Microsoft:
Today is an exciting day, and Microsoft has made new progress in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). We reached a consensus on the acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Maluuba. Maluuba is a Montreal-based company with the world's most impressive deep learning research laboratory focused on natural language understanding. Maluuba specializes in deep learning and reinforcement learning in Q&A and decision-making systems, which will help Microsoft advance the strategy of universal and universal AI, so that everyone can use artificial intelligence and benefit from it – including every consumer, business and development By.
With our deep learning technology, we have recently achieved outstanding achievements in language and image recognition - machine reading and writing. As famous hockey player Wayne Gretzky said, we are "sliding to where the ice hockey will appear."
Maluuba's vision is the same as Microsoft's vision to achieve more comprehensive artificial intelligence by creating literate machines that think, reason, and communicate like humans. By modeling the innate abilities of the human brain, Maluuba's outstanding team is trying to solve some fundamental problems in language understanding. These competency models include memory skills, common sense reasoning, and curiosity and decision making. I have been engaged in artificial intelligence research and development for more than 20 years. This acquisition has made me look forward to the infinite possibilities of conversational artificial intelligence.
Imagine that in the future, you no longer have to be crazy about not finding people. For example, you can't find the top tax experts in the company from the company's employee list, documents, and emails. Instead, you can communicate with an artificial intelligence assistant with Maluuba machine understanding, which instantly responds to your needs. The AI ​​will use the deep learning and understanding of files, emails, etc. to provide feedback in a way that complies with corporate security standards, rather than simply using the most common keyword matches available today to retrieve documents. As Maluuba continues to advance cutting-edge research and development in machine culture, this is just one of the hundreds of possibilities we can imagine.
Sam Pasupalak and Maluuba's other co-founder Kaheer Suleman have created an excellent engineering R&D team that will also be part of Microsoft's Artificial Intelligence and Microsoft Research Group. We believe that our partnership will not only enable Maluuba's groundbreaking results to achieve large-scale development, but also enhance our own software development capabilities, allowing computers to read, write and talk more naturally.
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In addition, as one of the world's most important deep learning research experts, director of the Montreal Learning Algorithm Institute and Maluuba consultant, Yoshua Bengio will also become a Microsoft consultant and interact directly with me. I have always admired Yoshua's achievements, so I am looking forward to working with him and benefiting from his knowledge of the deep learning system.
Just as Maluuba has a highly aligned vision with Microsoft, their research and engineering collaborations are very similar to those of Microsoft. Last fall, we established the Artificial Intelligence and Research Division, which combines engineering and research to accelerate the entire process from cutting-edge research to product development. Maluuba will also closely connect research teams and engineering teams, and we look forward to learning more from them. One of the ways we work together is to provide comprehensive support to the global research community to promote the full development of artificial intelligence systems. For example, last month we released the MS Marco dataset to better serve the development of machine-readable technology; likewise, Maluuba recently opened a dataset for reading comprehension and dialogue systems.
We will share more about Maluuba's plans in the coming months. At the same time, I want to stress once again that Maluuba will bring technology and talent to Microsoft and will play an important role in helping Microsoft realize its vision of enabling and benefiting from the use of artificial intelligence by everyone and every organization on the planet. I feel very excited.
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