"The four month old Indian start-up help technology to march on in its timeless purpose"
Halli Labs belongs to Google now. This is the first
acquisition Google has done in India ever. However, After Sundar Pichai’s
elevation this news has come way too late but this acquisition indeed has
a lot to cherish about. Here is an excerpt from the Halli Labs introduction
paragraph “Halli Labs is applying modern ML (Machine Learning) techniques to
solve old problems and domains to help technology to march on in its timeless
purpose – i.e. giving superhuman powers to all of us humans in letting us do
whatever we want to do better.”
Like any other internet giant, Google is also desperate to
exploit Indian market. In its bid to play big, Google has arrived very late in
India specially when Microsoft has a strong presence in Indian market since
three decades. Acquisition of Halli Labs spells Google’s priority of improving
its Indian Language translation. 500 Million people use Hindi and there are
more than 17 other languages in India that caters to sizable market for an
information carrier like Google. Halli Labs has not yet delivered any product
in market but they were very promisingly working on Speed Recognition &
Natural Language Processing. While the charisma of this acquisition is yet to be
revealed, the floodgate has been opened up, let’s see what rolls down in Indian
market from now on.
From invention fire, wheel, rice cultivation, paper,
gunpowder, electricity, www and hashtags… Artificial Intelligence is set to
place humanity to an exponentially new height. Halli Labs has one more thing to
impress! The name of this youngest organization! “Halli” in Kannada is called
village. We are so fascinated by American names and western verbatim that we
seldom heed on how Amazon or almost all Japanese brand like Mitsubishi, Honda,
Kodak or Chinese brands like Hawaii have successfully placed their home-grown
names into the league of global brands. Strong roots will carry the load of
tomorrows giant tree, foundation must be acknowledged. Those brands are all
successful because they carry forward their cultural practices along with their
names with highest possible ethical standard of business. When Halli Labs
describe how modern Machine Learning Technique will solve old problems of human
kind it evident that how their culture enrichens their future vision about the
organization they have founded.
Well this does not at all a universal criterion of globally
performing organization. It never limits the scope for any company to succeed
but it considerably proves why some company succeeds and other could… not even
when everything they’re doing is right. Simon Sinek in his lecture has
described that the most important source of success for any organization is
their ability and preference to communicate why they do what they are doing.
Halli Labs is just four months old and now joins the Next Billion vision of
Google. A lot of us may argue upon this interpretation of success but when we
observe the bandwagon of Google Next Billion, organizations like DeepMind and
inventions like AlphaGo… it ensures that for complex designs like Artificial
Intelligence, Machine Learning and Augmented Reality… collaboration will out
use competition and together we all will advance to future when humans will
work with superhuman minds.
