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Facebook Acquires Visual Shopping Startup To Bolster AI Work (bloomberg.com)

Posted by msmash on from the further-expansion dept.

Facebook says it has acquired visual shopping and artificial intelligence startup GrokStyle in a move to bolster the social-media company's own AI work. From a report: GrokStyle's technology, which was integrated into Ikea's mobile app, was simple in practice. A user takes a picture of a piece of furniture and the technology would match it to similar products that could be purchased online. On its website, GrokStyle said it is "winding down" its business, but that it is "moving on as a team" along with its technology. The company didn't disclose it's joining Facebook.

4 comments

  1. Bend Over In Aisle 1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Go get 'im Zuck, Fuck that ass! There's a billion more to go!

  2. Keep buying them Zuckerfuck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It'll only make it sweeter when the US Governments rips you apart and tears your treasures out of your sweaty hands.

  3. Who's your Daddy, Spiderman? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    https://youtu.be/ZAEnKm68pF0

  4. Good luck, Zuck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No amount of 'bolstering' is ever going to cause software to cease being software (read that: never. You are not digital alchemists, and the lead of math logic will never be transmuted into a different element, though by all means, keep applying the gold paint and banging your heads against walls). These people are idiot children.