Apple Acquires Lattice Dark Data Company for $200 Million

Apple has acquired Lattice, a company that turns dark data into structured data
with 'human-caliber quality at machine-caliber scale', reports TechCrunch.

Sources tell the site that the deal was closed a couple weeks ago for around $200 million. About 20 engineers from the company have joined Apple.

Lattice was born out of the Stanford research project DeepDive, a programming and execution framework for statistical inference, which allows engineers to solve data cleaning, extraction, and integration problems jointly. It aims to take unstructured data like text and images and turn it into structured data at unprecedented speed and scale.


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It's unclear what Apple plans to do with the technology; however, speculation is that Apple may use it to help its AI efforts.

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