Acquisition History / Meta / Bloomsbury AI
Meta Acquires Bloomsbury AI
Announced July 2018 — $30M
What happened
Bloomsbury AI built natural-language-understanding technology for question answering.
- Acquirer
- Meta
- Target
- Bloomsbury AI
- Announced
- July 2018
- Price
- $30M
- Industry
- Natural language processing
By the numbers
Frequently Asked Questions About This Acquisition
When did Meta acquire Bloomsbury AI?
Meta acquired Bloomsbury AI on July 2018. This was Meta's 74th publicly tracked acquisition out of 109 we have on record.
How much did Meta pay for Bloomsbury AI?
Meta paid $30M for Bloomsbury AI.
What does Bloomsbury AI do?
Bloomsbury AI built natural-language-understanding technology for question answering.
What other Natural language processing companies has Meta acquired?
Meta has made 2 acquisitions in Natural language processing, including Bloomsbury AI. See the full list on the Natural language processing and Meta acquisition pages.
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