Two Hat

Two Hat is a developer of a content moderation solution in various online communities. The company uses artificial intelligence to classify and filter billions of interactions between people, analyzing text messages, images, videos, user names, etc.

History

2021: Microsoft bought Two Hat

At the end of October 2021, Microsoft announced the acquisition of Two Hat, but did not disclose the cost of the transaction. At the time of the announcement of the agreement, the sold startup attracted a total of $9 million, and the number of employees in it is about 60 people.

Microsoft and Two Hat are long-standing partners: Two Hat developments are used by the software giant to control the behavior of players in the Xbox infrastructure. It is assumed that Two Hat will allow Microsoft to improve content moderation in games and services. In addition, the Windows manufacturer is going to extend technology to consumer services.

Two Hat helped make Xbox, Minecraft and MSN global communities safer for users. This is thanks to its flexibly customizable technology, which allows the user to decide what is convenient and what is not,  "said Xbox Corporate Vice President of Product Services Dave McCarthy.

A Microsoft press release notes that over the past decade, Two Hat has grown to more than a trillion online interactions per year. The startup has created one of the most adaptive, flexible and comprehensive solutions for community management and has found ways to combine the best technologies with unique knowledge. And the result is a combination of artificial intelligence, machine learning, linguistics and the best community management best practices in the industry, the corporation added.^[1]

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