Microsoft Corporation acquired Bonsai, a transaction announced in June 2018, structured as Agreement to acquire signed June 20, 2018.
Bonsai operates in Microsoft Business AI, is based in Berkeley, California, United States. Bonsai is a Berkeley, California startup with a machine-teaching platform that uses deep reinforcement learning to build 'brains' for autonomous industrial systems, letting subject-matter experts train systems for robotics, energy, HVAC and manufacturing without deep AI expertise. Microsoft acquired it to advance autonomous systems on Azure.
Combine Bonsai's machine-teaching platform with Microsoft's AI research, Azure and simulation tools to create an end-to-end solution for building autonomous-system brains.
Bonsai has made tremendous progress here and Microsoft remains committed to furthering this work.Gurdeep Pall, Corporate Vice President of Business AI, Microsoft
Advisory firms were not disclosed for this transaction.