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Twitter buys Magic Pony, a startup that uses robots to scan pictures

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Twitter has bought a company that uses computers that can think like people to scan pictures and see what’s in them. Magic Pony – a UK-based company that uses machine learning for visual processing – was bought by Twitter for a rumoured $150 million. All of those engineers will be joining “Twitter Cortex” a project that looks to use machine learning as well as engineers and data scientists to improve Twitter’s platform. “The team includes 11 PhDs with expertise across computer vision, machine learning, high-performance computing, and computational neuroscience, who are alumni of some of the top labs in the world,” CEO Jack Dorsey said.

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