{"id":5799,"date":"2017-08-16T19:45:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T02:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=5799"},"modified":"2017-08-16T22:30:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T05:30:35","slug":"sht-gets-real-google-acquires-aimatter-maker-of-the-fabby-computer-vision-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/16\/sht-gets-real-google-acquires-aimatter-maker-of-the-fabby-computer-vision-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Sh*t gets real: Google acquires AIMatter, maker of the Fabby computer vision app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This won\u2019t seem like much right now, I\u2019m sure\u2014but I\u2019m really excited. Per <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/08\/16\/google-acquires-aimatter-maker-of-the-fabby-computer-vision-app\/\">TechCrunch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The search and Android giant has acquired AIMatter, a startup founded in Belarus that has built both a neural network-based AI platform and SDK to detect and process images quickly on mobile devices, and a photo and video editing app that has served as a proof-of-concept of the tech called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fab.by\/\">Fabby<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a lot of ways it\u2019s the next generation of stuff we started developing when I joined Google Photos (anybody remember\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/27\/come-get-a-halloween-makeover-from-google\/\">Halloweenify<\/a>?). If you\u2019ve ever hand-selected hair in Photoshop or (gulp) rotoscoped video, you\u2019ll know how insane it is that these tasks can now be performed in realtime on a <em>friggin\u2019 telephone<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As to what happens next\u2014stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/NewImage-17.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"599\" height=\"344\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/NewImage-18.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"600\" height=\"382\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This won\u2019t seem like much right now, I\u2019m sure\u2014but I\u2019m really excited. Per TechCrunch: The search and Android giant has acquired AIMatter, a startup founded in Belarus that has built both a neural network-based AI platform and SDK to detect and process images quickly on mobile devices, and a photo and video editing app that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5799"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5804,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799\/revisions\/5804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}