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HappyTypist on March 8, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cloud Video Intelligence API

Snapchat is big enough to do it in house without paying Google to donate their data for their NN.

For volume consumers, Google should be paying Snapchat to learn from their data.

wastedhours on March 8, 2017 [–]

They have just committed to spending $1bn on GCP though, so not unrealistic that they'd leverage some of the other suite of tools.

discordance on March 8, 2017 | [–]

It's actually $2bn [1], $400 million per year over 5 years.

1: http://www.recode.net/2017/2/2/14492026/snap-ipo-2-billion-c...

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