[soheil]

I'm a little sad about this, what will Google do with this? Are they going to drain its soul? I think at a minimum the people behind Kaggle won't feel the same urge to keep building , maintaining and growing it the same way as before, specially as the $$$ flows in their pockets. It will probably change direction by people at Google in control and I'm not sure if that's a good thing since they didn't just built something like this on their own or a better version of it if they were really good at doing stuff like this themselves.

[ehsankia]

They just officially announced it at NEXT. It was presented by Fei Fei Li, who is known for the ImageNet project, which one one of the first big open datasets that really helped advance this field.

The way she presented the news is that they will aim to advance that vision, but we'll have to wait an see how their vision pans out.