Google bought a news startup Wavii for more than $ 30 million

Google has agreed to acquire a startup Wavii for more than $ 30 million, according to TechCrunch. What is a startup can be understood from the description of the journalist Time: "Wavii searches the Internet, finds news and summarizes it, with links to full articles from a variety of sources." At the same time, he uses his own technology of processing natural language.

Apple and Google fought for a Seattle startup, and eventually won the last one. Apple wanted to use the aggregation and processing of natural language in its Siri, but in the end, a team of 25 people moved to the Google division of the Knowledge Graph project.

Since its founding in March 2009, Wavii has raised $ 2 million for initial funding from a large number of investors, including Felicis Investments, SV Angel, CrunchFund, Mitch Kapor and Max Levchin.
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Recently, a similar startup (Summly) was acquired by Yahoo. However, as Business Insider points out, Wavii is interesting for its natural language processing technology.

The founder of the startup, a former Microsoft employee Adrian Aun, said in an interview that from an early age he was in a language learning environment, and his father had studied with the linguist Noam Chomsky at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and gave him an understanding of how people learn to speak. Aun set the task to imitate this process in software and essentially make the computer read the web.