British Mobile AI 'bot Perfecter Stalked By Silicon Valley – Report

British AI startup, Weave.ai, is the latest company rumoured to be snatched up by a US tech firm in Silicon Valley, according to the Financial Times.

Weave.ai was founded last year and has four AI engineers working in North Greenwich. The team are developing WeaveOS, an “AI-first” operating system (OS) for mobile phones.

Co-founder and CEO of Weave.ai, Rodolfo Rosini, believes artificial intelligence will dominate computing in the future.

Rosini blogged here: “The current generation of OSes and apps were all about translating the interaction vocabulary to a smaller device and a touch screen. The next generation of OSes will dominate the next 20 years of computing.

“It will be all about transforming the apps and the interactions to leverage the AI capabilities of the device and the data of the user to plan actions and understand intent.”

The goal is to declutter the notification system on mobile phones by integrating the different functions served by mobile apps by using something called a "contextual card system" for their AI OS.

The system will be similar to Google Now, where users instruct the app to carry out a specific function by speaking into their phones. The app creates a card which is added to a list of cards with information relevant to the user that is updated regularly.

Weave.ai believes that process can be made smoother and can adapt to the user more readily by using AI.

Although the company have not commented on who the potential buyer is, weave.ai is reportedly in discussion with “multiple parties” from the US west coast.

Silicon Valley has been sniffing around British AI startups for a while. Google’s AI firm DeepMind was bought in 2014 for $400m. Apple went for VocalIQ last year in a bid to make Siri sound more human.

This year, Microsoft paid $250mn for SwiftKey who use AI for predictive text. And Twitter bought Magic Pony for $150m to improve video and image data processing on its social media platform. ®

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