Numerai will give $1 million in crypto tokens to Kaggle users who sign up to its crowdsourced hedge fund

EXCLUSIVE: You may have heard of Numerai — the unorthodox hedge fund that crowdsources predictive stock market models from data scientists around the world. It is now seeking more brain power and announced today that it is giving away $ 1 million worth of cryptocurrency to Kaggle users who sign up. The San Francisco-based hedge […]

Google’s Kaggle now has 1 million developers signed up for AI competitions

Kaggle, a website that hosts public competitions on machine learning tasks, announced Tuesday that it now has over 1 million users a little more than 7 years after it launched. It’s a sign of accelerating interest in the artificial intelligence and machine learning field, since Kaggle competitions give data scientists a way to test techniques […]

Google is reportedly buying data science community Kaggle

Enlarge (credit: Kaggle) Google’s latest acquisition appears to involve data scientists and machine learning contests. According to TechCrunch sources, the company is reportedly buying Kaggle, a group that hosts both data science and machine-learning competitions, as well as a job board with listings for analysts, programmers, and more. The report doesn’t provide details of the acquisition, but an official announcement […]

Google is reportedly acquiring a data science community called Kaggle (GOOG)

Reuters/Beck Diefenbach Google is planning to acquire a coding competition platform called Kaggle, TechCrunch reports. Founded in 2010, Kaggle allows developers and data scientists to run machine learning contests, host datasets, and to write and share code. The platform reportedly has half a million data scientists that Google would try to capitalise on in some […]