Though the confirmation of Tuplejump’s acquisition came this week, the deal may have occurred sometime in April. This is the fourth machine learning company acquired by the high-tech giant over a one year period.
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According to Techcrunch, Apple stuck to its standard statement about how the company buys smaller companies from time to time.
The company describes itself as having the goal of simplifying data management technologies in order to make them simple to use.
Tuplejump was (its website has vanished) an Indian-U.S. company with technology for managing large amounts of data, or “big data” as the jargon has it. It also facilitates companies in storing and processing big data.
Apple has bought Tuplejump, a machine learning technology company with operations in both India and the United States, TechCrunch reports.
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Going by the information shared by unidentified Bloomberg sources, Apple acquired Tuplejump – which had a team of just a dozen employees – sometime in June this year, but the acquisition apparently went unnoticed. We are building technology that is simple to use, scalable and will allow people to ask hard questions on huge datasets. It’s speculated Apple was interested in the work TupleJump did on an open source platform called FiloDB. According to the report, Apple had specific interest in the company’s “FiloDB”, an opensource project created to “efficiently apply machine learning concepts and analytics to massive amounts of complex data right as it streamed in”. Past Tuplejump’s acquisition, the FiloDB project is expected to continue independently, since it’s been recently updated and it already has its own repository.
