{"id":161152,"date":"2023-03-27T18:30:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T23:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/apple-acquired-a-startup-using-ai-to-compress-videos"},"modified":"2023-03-27T18:30:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T23:30:48","slug":"apple-acquired-a-startup-using-ai-to-compress-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/apple-acquired-a-startup-using-ai-to-compress-videos","title":{"rendered":"Apple acquired a startup using AI to compress videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/apple-acquired-a-startup-using-ai-to-compress-videos.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple has quietly acquired a Mountain View-based startup, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/12\/01\/waveone-aims-to-make-video-ai-native-and-turn-streaming-upside-down\/\">WaveOne<\/a>, that was developing AI algorithms for compressing video.<\/p>\n<p>Apple wouldn\u2019t confirm the sale when asked for comment. But WaveOne\u2019s website was shut down around January, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kedar-tatwawadi-6914981b\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">several<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/herveguihot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/carissa-lew-b88b0316\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">employees<\/a>, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/orippel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one of WaveOne\u2019s co-founders<\/a>, now work within Apple\u2019s various machine learning groups.<\/p>\n<p>WaveOne\u2019s former head of sales and business development, Bob Stankosh, announced the sale in a LinkedIn post published a month ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has quietly acquired a Mountain View-based startup, WaveOne, that was developing AI algorithms for compressing video. Apple wouldn\u2019t confirm the sale when asked for comment. But WaveOne\u2019s website was shut down around January, and several former employees, including one of WaveOne\u2019s co-founders, now work within Apple\u2019s various machine learning groups. WaveOne\u2019s former head of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161152","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}