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ai deals
Year Acquirer Target Price / Structure Core Focus
2010 Apple Siri ≈ $200 M Voice assistant / NLP
2013 Google DNNresearch (Hinton) ≈ $44 M Deep CNN research (AlexNet)
2014 Google DeepMind $500–650 M Deep RL & general AI
2015 Facebook Wit.ai n/d Speech / NLU APIs
2016 Intel Nervana $350–400 M DL ASIC & framework
2016 Twitter Magic Pony $150 M CV up-scaling / video ML
2016 Uber Geometric Intelligence n/d Probabilistic ML (Uber AI Labs)
2017 Intel Mobileye $15.3 B ADAS / autonomous driving
2017 Apple Lattice Data ≈ $200 M Structuring “dark” data
2017 Cisco MindMeld $125 M Conversational AI
2018 Microsoft Bonsai AI n/d RL for industrial control
2019 Apple Drive.ai < $100 M Autonomous-shuttle stack
2019 Meta (Facebook) CTRL-Labs $500 M – $1 B Neural-interface EMG wristband
2020 Apple Xnor.ai ≈ $200 M On-device / edge CV
2020 Amazon Zoox ≈ $1.3 B Robotaxi platform & cars
2021 Microsoft Nuance $19.7 B Speech & clinical AI
2021 NVIDIA DeepMap n/d HD maps for autonomy
2022 IBM Databand.ai ≈ $150 M ML / data-pipeline observability
2023 Snowflake Myst AI n/d Time-series forecasting
2023 Snowflake Neeva n/d Gen-AI semantic search
2023 Databricks MosaicML $1.3 B Efficient LLM training
2023 Thomson Reuters Casetext $650 M Gen-AI legal research
2023 OpenAI Global Illumination n/d Creative tools acqui-hire
2024 Apple DarwinAI n/d Vision QA / model compression
2024 NVIDIA OctoAI ≈ $250 M Gen-AI inference runtime
2024 NVIDIA Run:ai $700 M GPU orchestration
2024 Canva Leonardo.ai > $80 M Gen-image / video creation
2024 Databricks Tabular $1 – 2 B Iceberg data lakehouse infra
2024 **Amazon Adept** rev. acq-hire; license fee (investors repaid ≈ $414 M) Agentic-AI “action” models
2024 **Google Character.ai** $2.7 B license + partial team (rev. acq-hire) Chatbot / LLM tech
2025 Meta Scale AI (49 % stake) $14 B Data-labeling & eval infra
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