Deep learning is a type of artificial intelligence that many large technology companies — like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter — have invested in by way of acquisitions or in-house research. The technique generally involves training artificial neural networks on large sets of data and then having them make inferences about new data.

Last month Salesforce acquired machine learning startup PredictionIO, and last year it acquired and shut down smart calendar app Tempo AI. Meanwhile, Salesforce has been building up a data science team, with key members coming from LinkedIn.

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