Salesforce.com Acquires Deep Learning Startup MetaMind

Terms were not disclosed, but it has all the markings of an "acqhire" sort of deal. Founder and CTO Richard Socher announced the deal in a post on the MetaMind website. Socher says on his personal website that his new title is Chief Scientist at Salesforce. MetaMind's area of expertise is deep learning, the subset of artificial intelligence focused on data processing that is en vogue with Google, Facebook and other tech companies. The startup's specialty is natural language processing -- allowing computers to analyze relationships between words.