There are studies of all kinds and this one is quite curious considering that it is quite relevant in the progress of companies. As you read in the headline of this article, the Cupertino company leads the ranking of companies that more startups and small companies have bought from last year 2016 to today.
The studio signs it Global Data and in this you can clearly see the dominance of the apple company compared to the rest of the technology companies in the purchase of companies related to AI (Artificial Intelligence) such as Google, Microsoft, Facebook or Accenture ... In this
This is the screenshot in which you can see the list of some of these companies acquired by Apple during these years:
"AI has remained the key focus area for tech giants and increasing competition to dominate the market results in increased acquisitions from these companies. ", They explain from GlobalData.
At Apple, they tend to explain the purchase of a company in a not very concise way from time to time and every year there are many announcements about purchases of companies in the sector. In this long list we come across many of these companies directly related to the development of artificial intelligence, but there are all kinds of them. Surely the list of these companies continues to grow over time, in this short period studied by GlobalData reflects the good health of Apple in the purchase of other companies.