Infrastructure-focused artificial intelligence company SparkCognition has announced the acquisition of industrial digital knowledge platform provider Maana.
Counting among its customers the likes of Chevron, Shell, Aramco and Airbus, Maana offers computational knowledge graph technology. The company’s solution allows companies to aggregate knowledge and industrial data to improve decision making via the building of decision models. Those models can then be further developed into reusable use cases in the oil and gas industry.
“Maana was founded to organise human expertise, machine intelligence, and data into digital knowledge to assist subject matter experts making critical decisions at business operations,” said Babur Ozden, Founder & CEO at Maana. “We mutually share this vision with SparkCognition, and we’re proud to pursue the mission now as part of SparkCognition.”
Accelerating AI Adoption
SparkCognition said the partnership would help its customers to accelerate AI adoption as they undergo digital transformation.
“Since SparkCognition’s inception, our mission has been to create value for our clients by delivering advanced AI technology to the world’s largest industries, such as energy, aviation, shipping and logistics,” said Amir Husain, founder and CEO of SparkCognition. “Maana’s deep technical expertise in these key verticals made it an obvious choice for us, and together, we will propel our solutions forward to better serve our clients and partners around the world.”
Back in May, SparkCognition further bolstered its offering via the opening of an “autonomy facility” dedicated to showcasing the uses of AI integrated with physical systems. HyperWerx is located on a 50-acre site in Austin, Texas, and will explore AI capabilities such as robotics platforms and unmanned aerial vehicles.
“When you work with technology as nebulous as software, it can be challenging to visualise exactly how AI and physical systems will work together. Beyond that, it is simply not possible to develop new physical applications without the experimentation, testing and safety validation process,” said Amir Husain. “With that in mind, we conceived HyperWerx – a place where we can truly explore the interplay between AI software and the physical systems, which I believe will be a core driver in shaping the future of society.”
