Apple Inc. has purchased Israeli startup Q.ai in a deal estimated to be price $2 billion, in keeping with a report within the “Monetary Occasions”. The newspaper’s sources stated that this was Apple’s second-biggest acquisition. The businesses haven’t, nonetheless, formally disclosed particulars of the deal.
So far, Q.ai has operated away from the limelight. It has developed synthetic intelligence expertise for analyzing and enriching communications and imaging experiences. Based on the experiences, the corporate develops superior machine learning-based instruments for, amongst different issues, analyzing facial expressions and enhancing audio interactions in troublesome environments.
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The corporate is headed by Aviad Maizels, a distinguished entrepreneur in Israel’s expertise business. Maizels was one of many founders of PrimeSense, which was offered to Apple in 2013. Its expertise served as the premise for improvement of superior identification capabilities in Apple’s merchandise. Maizels based Q.ai in 2022 along with Yonatan Wexler and Avi Barliya. The corporate is predicated in Ramat Gan and employs over 100 folks.
Reuters quotes Johny Srouji, Apple’s senior vp of {hardware} applied sciences, as saying in an announcement that Q.ai “is a outstanding firm that’s pioneering new and artistic methods to make use of imaging and machine studying,” including “”We’re thrilled to amass the corporate, with Aviad on the helm, and are much more excited for what’s to come back.”
Based on the report, Q.ai’s founding group will be part of Apple on completion of the deal.
Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on January 29, 2026.
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