Twitter is increasing its focus on images after it quietly acquired deep-learning startup Madbits. GigaOm first reported the deal, which appears to have closed on Monday according to the Madbits website — although there has been no announcement from Twitter at this point. Deep-learning has developed into quite the buzzword as startups sprout up promising to pore through the mountains of information on the internet — both public and private — to help us better understand trends, information, people and more. Madbits comes with quite a pedigree — founders Clément Farabet and Louis-Alexandre Etezad-Heydari were students of New York University professor Yann LeCun,…
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