Waterloo-based AI start-up Inductiv acquired by Apple

Waterloo-based Inductiv Inc., an AI start-up that uses machine learning to automate the task of identifying and correcting errors in data, has been bought by tech giant Apple.

Inductiv’s technology is based on HoloClean, an open-source statistical inference engine that uses artificial intelligence to identify and correct errors and omissions in data. This next generation of machine learning techniques to clean data began in 2017 as a collaborative academic project led by Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Ihab Ilyas, and his colleagues Professors Theodoros Rekatsinas at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Christopher Ré at Stanford University.

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