Apple acquires AI company with technology to clean data

Apple has acquired Canadian company Inductiv. The start-up makes technology that is aimed at removing errors from data. Inductiv’s employees would start working on Siri digital assistant.

The technology of the start-up should make it possible to use data with fewer errors in Siri and thus improve the functioning, reports financial news agency Bloomberg. Apple confirms the acquisition, but would not say anything about the purpose of the acquisition or the amount for which it bought the Canadian start-up.

Inductiv worked with the open source project HoloClean to clean up data, and the founders were also involved in that project. This method is explained in a paper. One of the founders also founded Lattice Data, an AI company that Apple acquired in 2017. Inductiv originates from three universities in the United States and Canada, and was located in the Canadian city of Waterloo, where BlackBerry is also located.