Sighthound Transforms Into Enterprise AI Provider Profile

By: Sean Patton, Published on Jun 14, 2019

Sighthound is now rapidly expanding its R&D team, building an enterprise AI service. This may come as a surprise given their origins 6 years ago acquiring a small residential analytics offering (Vitamin D).

Why the change?

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Risks *** **********

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Comments (1)

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