One interesting coincidence is that the CEO worked previously at a startup that was also acquired by Apple (Emotient)
correlation implies causation
Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab
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Re: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is mistral
French LLM company, founded by former meta engineer + a former French minister for good political leverage, they made the news after they raised €105M on a slide deck last June. They are quite close to the state of the art in terms of LLMs, both closed and open weights.
somehow the BLOOM model was designed and implemented in France quite a long time ago (in LLM years).. so there is an informed crowd making leadership allocations..
Re: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab
#23Seems like they will really push VisionOS, which is cool. Hopefully this leads to innovative ways to use it, because those initial videos of pasta timers and "smarter" vacuuming were not at all what I wanted.
What do you want instead?
Re: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a rule of thumb, not if immaterial to their financials, which in often the case for Apple given their size and M&A strategy (they rarely go for any sizeable acquisitions) Sometimes you can find a reference to it in the buyer's the next quarterly (10-Q) or annual (10-K) filing, but since again this is small, Apple will likely only mention it in passing and any sum paid will either be missing or lumped with a bunch…
Thanks for the explanation. I figured it should appear in their quarterly and annual filing as u said. Since the startup is quite young I would also agree Apple could be interested in their talent.
Interestingly, not the founders:
> The report says that Datakalab’s two founders did not join Apple, but multiple other employees did make the jump.
Perhaps they're interested in IP, too. In any case, I don't quite know how to read Apple's strategy of picking small startups (PA Semi and Anobit being, in retrospect, surprisingly small for their impact).
Re: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab
#25One interesting coincidence is that the CEO worked previously at a startup that was also acquired by Apple (Emotient)
Second time makes the process a lot easier!
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#26Does this mean Siri can soon do more than setting a timer ? … even that doesn’t work sometimes
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Re: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab
#27Does this mean Siri can soon do more than setting a timer ? … even that doesn’t work sometimes
Probably not, since this seems to be about on-device computer vision.
Maybe Siri will be able to see that users are pissed off at it though?
Re: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab
#28Seems like they will really push VisionOS, which is cool. Hopefully this leads to innovative ways to use it, because those initial videos of pasta timers and "smarter" vacuuming were not at all what I wanted.
What do you want instead?
I want a mini game as I chop cucumbers. And a wall of my achievements that’s shared with anyone in proximity.
Re: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab
#29Seems like they will really push VisionOS, which is cool. Hopefully this leads to innovative ways to use it, because those initial videos of pasta timers and "smarter" vacuuming were not at all what I wanted.
What do you want instead?
Personally for me: A real smart assistant that knows all the context, calendar invites, messages, photos from using Apple products for many years.
Alternatively: Siri that can reliably turn lights on and off again.
Re: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab
#3011 employees on Linkedin