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Google eats French AI upstart

Google has bought a biz that builds image-recognition software for smartphones for an undisclosed sum.

Moodstocks is based in Paris and said in an announcement that its dream is to "give eyes to machines by turning cameras into smart sensors able to make sense of their surroundings."

The company has been working on its technology since 2012 but seemingly hasn't gained much industry recognition, suggesting either that its tech fills a hole in Google's offerings or the ad giant is buying the company to staff up on machine learning as the topic becomes an ever more important tech battleground.

Moodstocks announced it was going to discontinue its image recognition tools with a very chirpy "it's been a blast witnessing the great apps you guys built on top of our API!" It's not known if its customers are as excited.

According to Google's announcement, the team will be relocated to its research and development center in Paris. ®

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