When Quickplay played down the competitive notion of the company’s integration with AI-based video metadata specialist Vionlabs last week, we knew a quick call would confirm our suspicions. Days later, Vionlabs CEO Marcus Bergström is speaking openly to Faultline via video call about his company most certainly having ambitions to come after Gracenote’s lunch. Of course, if you are Quickplay, you want to keep your content management system a neutral metadata breeding ground, which is why the Canadian video platform vendor told us it only wants to work with the broadest mix of best-of-breed partners, not to disrupt the status quo of metadata tagging. That task is firmly in the palm of media fingerprinting technology from Sweden-based Vionlabs – producing…