Monday, 19 September 2016

Etsy buys Blackbird AI to bring more machine learning into its search platform

A mural is displayed at Etsy Inc. headquarters in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., on Monday, May 4, 2015. Etsy Inc., a marketplace for handmade and vintage goods, raised $267 million in its initial public offering. Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images It’s not just gigantic search engines that are looking to acquire tech and talent around emerging areas like speech recognition. Even design and craft marketplaces can use a little machine learning and artificial intelligence to make their wheels turn a little better. Today, the popular handmade goods site Etsy announced that it has acquired a startup called Blackbird… Read More


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