Intel acquires AI startup Vertex.ai

Intel has been on an artificial intelligence (AI) buying spree lately. On the heels of its Nervana, Mobileye, and Movidius acquisitions, it today announced that it's buying Vertex.ai, Vertex.ai will join the chipmaker's Artificial Intelligence Products Group, according to a note on its website, where it'll "support a variety of hardware" and work to integrate PlaidML, its "multi-language acceleration platform" that allows developers to deploy AI models on Linux, macOS, and Windows devices, with Intel's nGraph machine learning backend. It'll continue to develop the PlaidML, which is open source, under the Apache 2.0 license. "Intel has acquired Vertex.ai, a Seattle-based startup focused on deep learning compilation tools and associated technology," Intel said in a statement.