Powerset sold to Microsoft
July 9th, 2008 –
Microsoft has acquired Powerset, a start-up with narrow AI technology for semantic search. Congratulations to CTO and co-founder Dr. Barney Pell, who is also a scientific adviser to SIAI.
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