Samsung is buying the team that originally created Siri
Rather than create its own personal assistant for Galaxy smartphones, Samsung is just buying one.The company has announced it's acquiring Viv Labs, a startup formed by the creators of Apple's Siri personal assistant, for an undisclosed amount of money.The deal is being reported both by TechCrunch and CNBC and has been confirmed directly in this Medium post.Viv Labs publicly showed off its next-generation artificial intelligence assistant (simply called Viv) back in May.
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Samsung is buying the Siri team's new startup to have a future in AI
With personal assistants all the rage, Samsung has decided it needs to get in on the act.The Korean electronics giant said Wednesday it is buying Viv, a San Jose-based startup created by Siri co-founder Dag Kittlaus.Neither company would talk about the financial terms, but all 30 or so Viv employees will be joining Samsung, Kittlaus told Recode.Samsung said it isn't approaching artificial intelligence as broadly as Google or Apple.
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