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Facebook's secret start-up acquisition

According to the recent reports, Facebook has recently acquired Deeptide Ltd, a UK based company that is behind the start-up ATLAS ML, a free and open resource for machine learning papers and code. The main focus of ATLAS ML is to make it easier to discover and apply deep learning research. Facebook has been working aggressively on the expansion of its AI capabilities and recently acquired Bloosbury and Scape Technologies

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Mon Feb 10 - Techcrunch

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