Silicon Updates: Google has acquired Bangalore-based AI startup Halli Labs

Halli Labs is a Bangalore-based startup that has appeared public on 22nd May, 2017. The company works on building deep learning and machine learning systems.

We are excited that the Halli Labs team is joining Google. They’ll be joining our team that is focused on building products that are designed for the next billion users coming online, particularly in India. - Google spokesperson Taj Meadows.

The statement from Google spokesperson has confirmed the acquisition of Halli Labs by Google. The company was founded by the Data Scientist Pankaj Gupta. Google has been working on AI and now this acquisition is leaving tech experts into an exclaim. As Halli labs is working on the technologies like speed recognition and natural language processing, Google came forward to acquire the startup.
As Halli Labs is a four-month old startup, there is no clear information about the company.

Halli Labs was founded with the goal of applying modern AI and ML (Machine Learning) techniques to old problems and domains?—?in order to help technology enable people to do whatever it is that they want to do, easier and better. Well, what better place than Google to help us achieve this goal - Halli Labs in their blog post.

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