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Re:Apple buys autonomous driving company Drive.ai by jamesblonde on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @02:59AM (#20282504)
Graphlab was another product they acquired along with the company Turi. The product was axed - acqui-hire for the team to do deep learning.

Similarly for the key-value store FoundationDB.

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Re:Apple buys autonomous driving company Drive.ai by AceJohnny2 on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @03:13AM (#20282570)
> Similarly for the key-value store FoundationDB.

They open-sourced that, and not in a "dump the baby on the community doorstep" kind of way. It's active:

https://www.foundationdb.org/blog/foundationdb-is-open-sourc...

https://github.com/apple/foundationdb

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Re:Apple buys autonomous driving company Drive.ai by ricardobeat on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @05:20AM (#20283238)
In addition to open-sourcing it, last I heard FoundationDB is what powers iCloud.
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