Twitter announced that it had acquired Whetlab, a machine learning startup from Cambridge. The acquisition also allows Twitter to get access to both Whetlab's technology and its team.
Whetlab's developed AI-like technologies that would make machine learning easier for companies easier to implement. The system it was creating has been designed to get clients' internal system off the ground automatically and more quickly. The potential for the system was the ability to reduce the time taken for new machines to learn from new systems from months to just days.
We’ve acquired @whetlab to accelerate Twitter’s machine learning efforts. https://t.co/wGXuHUc36a
— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) June 17, 2015
All five team members, including Ryan Adams, Hugo Larochelle, Jasper Snoek, Kevin Swersky and Alex Wiltschko, are joining Twitter's machine learning efforts.
