Google adds image recognition startup Moodstocks to Android ranks

Google has continued its charge on the artificial intelligence market through purchasing French image recognition startup Moodstocks.
Moodstocks, founded in 2008, develops machine-learning based image recognition technology for smartphones, which has been described by developers as the ‘Shazam for images’. Financials of the agreement have not been confirmed to date.
“Ever since we started Moodstocks, our dream has been to give eyes to machines by turning cameras into smart sens