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Apple has quietly agreed to hire employees and license intellectual property of Animato.
Apple has made a structured acqui-hire of Animato, licensing its IP and patent applications.
KEY POINTS
- The acquisition was disclosed in an EU Digital Markets Act filing in January 2026.
- Animato's well-known 'Call Annie' app, enabling video AI avatar chats, has been discontinued post-acquisition.
- This marks Apple's second digital avatar company acquisition within just over a year, following TrueMeeting.
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