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13 acquisitions highlight Big Tech’s AI talent grab in 2020 – VentureBeat
Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google continued the AI talent arms race in 2020, snapping up myriad startups across the AI realm.
Its no secret that Big Tech has for years nabbed top technology talent through product acquisitions and acqui-hires. In fact, this is something the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is currently looking into through ongoing antitrust investigations. So it should come as little surprise that Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Alphabet (FAAMG) have also engaged in an AI talent arms race that involves dangling millions of dollars in front of some of best technical minds.
In 2019, the Big 5 snapped…
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