{"id":101045,"date":"2020-01-18T11:03:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T19:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/apples-latest-ai-acquisition-is-a-glimpse-into-future-devices"},"modified":"2020-01-18T11:03:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T19:03:54","slug":"apples-latest-ai-acquisition-is-a-glimpse-into-future-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/apples-latest-ai-acquisition-is-a-glimpse-into-future-devices","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s Latest AI Acquisition Is A Glimpse Into Future Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/apples-latest-ai-acquisition-is-a-glimpse-into-future-devices.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple has reportedly paid $200 million to acquire Seattle-based artificial intelligence company <a href=\"http:\/\/Xnor.ai\">Xnor.ai<\/a>, which specialises in edge-based AI.<\/p>\n<p>The purchase is one of many for Apple, which has become adept at vacuuming up tech startups, but it also gives us a glimpse into the company\u2019s thinking when it comes to future devices. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Xnor.ai\">Xnor.ai<\/a>\u2019s work on hyper-efficient, low-power AI that doesn\u2019t require powerful processing or a connection to the cloud (processing locally on-device instead), neatly slots into a few areas Apple is currently working on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has reportedly paid $200 million to acquire Seattle-based artificial intelligence company Xnor.ai, which specialises in edge-based AI. The purchase is one of many for Apple, which has become adept at vacuuming up tech startups, but it also gives us a glimpse into the company\u2019s thinking when it comes to future devices. Xnor.ai\u2019s work on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}