The company’s patented Explainable AI (XAI) platform has gained widespread adoption among numerous Fortune 500 companies.
Apple has acquired the artificial intelligence (AI) startup DarwinAI, bringing onboard several members of the Canadian company’s team to bolster its AI division. The acquisition reportedly took place earlier this year.
As part of the acquisition, Alexander Wong, a notable AI researcher from the University of Waterloo who played a significant role in developing DarwinAI’s business, has joined Apple as a director in its AI group.
DarwinAI specialises in visual quality inspection using its Explainable AI (XAI) platform. The company’s patented Explainable AI (XAI) platform has gained widespread adoption among numerous Fortune 500 companies. The platform is developed through extensive research led by Dr. Alexander Wong.
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is a set of processes and methods that enable humans to understand and trust the outcomes produced by machine learning algorithms. It aims to make AI models transparent, highlighting their accuracy, fairness, and potential biases.
This move comes as Apple aims to enhance its capabilities in generative AI, a field in which it has been perceived as trailing behind competitors like Microsoft and Google. The company recently shut down its electric car project to focus on AI.
