An acquisition of Dataloop, if it happens, would give a boost to Dell’s AI infrastructure capabilities with that company’s AI development platform that gives AI applications access to large amounts of relevant data from diverse sources.
Dell Technologies may be looking to expand its AI infrastructure capabilities with an acquisition of Dataloop, an Israel-based startup provider of technology for modernizing data stacks for use with AI.
Tech news outlet Calcalist Wednesday reported that Dell is currently talking with Dataloop about acquiring the company.
Dell, in response to a CRN request for more information, responded via email with a statement that read, “We’ve talked about continuing to pursue small-scale, tuck-in, IP-accretive M&A that accelerates our product roadmaps.”
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Dataloop did not respond to a CRN request for more information by press time.
According to Calcalist, which did not cite specific sources for the news, no dollar value or timeline for such an acquisition is available.
Dataloop offers an AI development platform with an enterprise-grade data engine that ensures developers and the AI applications they build have access to huge volumes of high-quality, relevant data from diverse sources. The platform is particularly targeted toward vision AI applications that use unstructured data such as video, images, audio and text.
The Dataloop platform, according to the company’s website, allows teams to “manage and automatically pre-process data, pipe it into a variety of existing AI models (or build your own), insert human feedback into the loop and rely on pre-built RAG, RLHF/RLAIF and Active Learning solutions with an end-to-end, extendible and modular AI development platform.”
Dell in 2024 introduced the Dell AI Factory along with partner Nvidia as a comprehensive and secure AI technology customizable for any business.
The company has also made a number of AI-related acquisitions. Dell in 2023 closed its acquisition of Moogsoft to enhance its AIOps capabilities. Dell in 2023 also acquired Cloudify as a way to build its cloud orchestration capabilities.
