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by Maria Deutscher
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today said that it has acquired Determined AI Inc., a startup with an open-source software platform capable of accelerating the speed at which machine learning algorithms can be trained by dozens of times.
The acquisition will boost HPE’s machine learning capabilities in a time when AI is becoming an increasing priority for buyers of its supercomputers and servers.
San Francisco-based Determined AI launched in 2017 and has raised more than $13 million in funding to date. Its investors include, among others, Alphabet Inc.’s GV fund, LG Electronics Co. Ltd. and CRV.
After developers write a new machine learning algorithm, they hone its computing capabilities by having it crunch large volumes of training data. This process helps increase the accuracy and speed of AI software. As the number of artificial neurons in the average machine learning algorithm has increased over recent years, so has the amount of hardware necessary to carry out the training process.
