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 Maluuba sign at the Waterloo office, 2014 | |
| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Artificial Intelligence, Natural language processing |
| Founded | 2011 in Waterloo, Ontario |
| Founder | Sam Pasupalak Kaheer Suleman Zhiyuan Wu Joshua Pantony[1][2][3][4][5] |
| Headquarters | , Canada |
| Parent | Microsoft Corporation |
| Website | www |
Maluuba is a Canadian technology company conducting research in artificial intelligence and language understanding. Founded in 2011, the company was acquired by Microsoft in 2017.[6]
In late March 2016, the company demonstrated a machine reading system capable of answering arbitrary questions about J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.[7] Maluuba's natural language understanding technology is used by several consumer electronic brands for over 50 million devices.[8]
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