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Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab
- kristjansson 2y agoNot Mistral, for anyone else that reads the comments first.
- mritchie712 2y agoIf the author was smart, they left the name out on purpose so people would click to check if it was mistral. You saved me that click.
- cdelsolar 2y agoWhat is mistral
- littlestymaar 2y agoFrench LLM company, founded by former meta engineer + a former French minister for good political leverage, they made the news after they raised €105M on a slide deck last June. They are quite close to the state of the art in terms of LLMs, both closed and open weights.
- mistrial9 2y agosomehow the BLOOM model was designed and implemented in France quite a long time ago (in LLM years).. so there is an informed crowd making leadership allocations..
- throwaway4220 2y agoDoes clickbait still work? I feel like I am savvy to it but maybe it’s an illusion ha
- chuckadams 2y agoI clicked to see if it was Mistral, so yep, it works.
- OJFord 2y agoI don't think it is in this case, it's just expecting that the reader hasn't heard of Datakalab and that the interesting thing is Apple and speculating about what they want with whatever they buy.
- KingOfCoders 2y ago1. I read the comments first 2. I was wondering if it was Mistral
- bratwurst3000 2y agoThanks. That was my question
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- BelleOfTheBall 2y agoSeems like they will really push VisionOS, which is cool. Hopefully this leads to innovative ways to use it, because those initial videos of pasta timers and "smarter" vacuuming were not at all what I wanted.
- azinman2 2y agoWhat do you want instead?
- orangepanda 2y agoI want a mini game as I chop cucumbers. And a wall of my achievements that’s shared with anyone in proximity.
- soraminazuki 2y agoDistracting people with mini games while they're holding a knife sounds like a bad idea.
- sunshinerag 2y agoEU is coming up with a consent popup to fix this situation. It will flash a hazard warning and will turn on haptic feedback till you drop the knife.
- hn_acker 2y agoNitpick: The EU didn't mandate intrusive consent popups. That was malicious compliance and/or laziness by advertisers, GDPR "tool" developers, and website owners. Website developers could've put an "opt in to tracking" option in a separate settings page that users would click on a gear icon in the top right corner to access.
- hightrix 2y agoWhy does it have to be a "distracting" experience? What if the game was showing you where to cut to get uniform slices and grading the uniformity of your cuts? Then you'd be focused on the activitiy at hand while still enjoying that sweet sweet gamified dopamine hit.
- sharpshadow 2y agoDo they have to disclose how much they paid?
- ru552 2y agoNot if the acquired isn't public.
- lotsofpulp 2y agoApple is publicly listed, so Apple would have to disclose it if it was material (sufficiently high price).
- airstrike 2y agoAs a rule of thumb, not if immaterial to their financials, which in often the case for Apple given their size and M&A strategy (they rarely go for any sizeable acquisitions) Sometimes you can find a reference to it in the buyer's the next quarterly (10-Q) or annual (10-K) filing, but since again this is small, Apple will likely only mention it in passing and any sum paid will either be missing or lumped with a bunch of items to make it undiscernable. No upside in disclosing And then there's the issue of value vs dollars. Even if we knew how much they paid in dollars, we wouldn't know how much it was worth without some metric for what they bought. The vanilla public-to-public case for stable industries like widget manufacturers is one company buys another for their future earnings or cashflows, hence ratios like P/E (Price per share divided by earnings per share) or Enterprise Value/EBITDA ((Market Cap+Debt+SimilarStuff)/EBITDA, with the usual caveat that EBITDA is not a perfect proxy for cash flow but it's somewhat more observable) In this case they likely bought IP and possibly some talent, so valuation there is a bit different. I don't have much experience with acquihires but I guess it just comes down to how much these specific folks required to take the deal rather than walk away...
- sharpshadow 2y agoThanks for the explanation. I figured it should appear in their quarterly and annual filing as u said. Since the startup is quite young I would also agree Apple could be interested in their talent.
- breck 2y agoTheir website (2021 version): https://web.archive.org/web/20210311020240/https://datakalab.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210311020240/https://datakalab...
- yoh2292 2y agoSo do we know how much it cost
- nennes 2y agoMandatory IT crowd reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsP_2IGx1aU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsP_2IGx1aU
- bratwurst3000 2y agoDoes this mean Siri can soon do more than setting a timer ? … even that doesn’t work sometimes
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- HarHarVeryFunny 2y agoProbably not, since this seems to be about on-device computer vision. Maybe Siri will be able to see that users are pissed off at it though?
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- JacobiX 2y agoOne interesting coincidence is that the CEO worked previously at a startup that was also acquired by Apple (Emotient)
- seydor 2y agocorrelation implies causation
- boringg 2y agoSecond time makes the process a lot easier!
- zitterbewegung 2y agoLess training and culture fit.
- BonoboIO 2y agoYou know the guys, you speak the same language and everybody likes money. Perfect fit.
- gcervantes 2y agoInteresting. 2 times acquired haha.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoHarbinger of Applocalypse? (For customers; I have no doubt investors and the core team are happy.)
- paxys 2y agoCoincidence or the fact that he already had the insider connections to make the second deal happen?
- Raed667 2y ago11 employees on Linkedin
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- martinlexow 2y agoFrom a developers perspective, Apple’s computer vision frameworks are already top-notch. I’m wondering how AI could further enhance the experience on the Apple Vision Pro. The greatest deficiency seems to me currently to lie in ideas for how this technology can be used sensibly.
- figassis 2y agoJarvis OS?
- roody15 2y agoApple Vision Pro in its current state almost looks like a parody of future tech. Heavy.. bulky … limited battery… limited peripheral vision. Just watch YouTube videos of people using the device. So far version 1.0 is a swing and a miss in my book.
- macintux 2y agoIf you consider it a development kit (albeit a very expensive one) it makes more sense. Just like the first iPhone wasn't practical for everyone, this will require a few more generations. (Although I suspect it's never going to be useful for me, with my weird prescription.)
- jackstraw14 2y agoTrue, but it seems more like it's placing a bet in the VR space like the first iPhone did. No one wanted iPhone v1 forever, and so I think the next few versions of the Vision Pro will be pretty interesting if this is the starting point. It also raises the bar of expectation for other VR/AR headsets. Seems like a net benefit for an area of tech that has been pretty stagnant for a while.
- cm2187 2y agoiphone 1 was way better than any of the alternatives at the time. Probably a better analogy were the bulky portable phones of the early 90s, which ultimately became smartphones, but after two decades!
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- esafak 2y agoNever heard of them. Anything particularly interesting about this acquisition; they do many?
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- xyst 2y agoThe death of a company is when it’s acquired by Google/Microsoft/Apple. Founders get the golden parachute, investors get their 100X exit. Whoever is left after the acquisition is left to babysit the dinosaurs. Maybe leadership decides to shelve the IP, kill the project and any active development. Move promising assets to other teams or transfer them as backfill. After dust settles. The “dead weight” is killed off.
- esafak 2y agoAre WhatsApp, Yoube, and Instagram dead? All acquisitions. Consider also that many companies would never be started if their founders had no option of selling them.
- juliendorra 2y agoAnd closer to Apple Shazam and Shortcuts!
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