After the surprise move of Apple buying Dark Sky, the popular hyperlocal weather app, Bloomberg has learned that it has also purchased another company this week called Voysis. The latest is an artificial intelligence startup that could help Apple improve Siri’s skill at understanding natural language.
Noted by Bloomberg, the Irish company Voysis has been working on improving digital assistants in apps to understand more advanced requests:
Google Assistant has a notable lead in natural language comprehension and processing and the acquisition of Voysis could be one way for Apple to make up some ground with Siri.
Apple gave the standard boilerplate statement about acquisitions to Bloomberg saying it “buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans.”
