FB, Amazon, IBM, Google, Microsoft on one AI platform

NEW YORK: In a major boost to artificial intelligence (AI) research, five top-notch tech companies — Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft — have joined hands in a major partnership on AI and machine learning, Tech Crunch reported on Thursday.

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Initial financial help will come from these companies and as other stakeholders join the group, the finances are expected to increase. “We want to involve people impacted by AI as well,” Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder and head of applied AI at Deep-Mind, a subsidiary of Alphabet (parent company of Google), was quoted as saying.