AI startup Tuplejump jumps into Apple cart

In an effort to bolster its hold in artificial intelligence in developing Siri and alikes, Apple has acquired a Hyderabad (India)-based machine learning startup Tuplejump–that helps companies to store, process and visualize Big Data– for an undisclosed amount. "Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans," While Rai and Buddhavarapu, according to their LinkedIn pages, have moved to Apple–working as Software Engineer and Engineering Manager respectively– post-acquisition, Alur has joined Anaplan and is heading the engineering team at the cloud-based analytics platform for sales, operations and finance sector. Techcrunch also cited that, Apple is particularly interested in Tumplejump built "FiloDB", an open-source project that aims at applying machine learning concepts and analytics to massive amounts of complex data sets. While Tuplejump, as a standalone company, claimed to be an early adopter of Big Data technology and help Fortune 500 companies manage the same. According to Venturebeat, the Tumplejump team was well acquainted with open source big data tools such as the Apache Spark processing engine, the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database, and the Apache Kafka via publish-subscribe messaging system.