Salesforce just bought a machine learning startup that was backed by its CEO Marc Benioff

Salesforce just bought another startup in the machine learning space, an area the cloud software maker has been doubling down on recently. The startup is called MetaMind, a startup that specializes in artificial intelligence using natural language and image recognition technology. It's raised 8 million so far from Khosla Ventures and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. The announcement was made through a blog post on MetaMind's website. The financial details of the deal were not disclosed.