Samsung opens artificial intelligence research centre in Toronto

Samsung’s advanced research and development arm, Samsung Research, is opening three new AI research centres worldwide. One of them is based in Toronto.

Samsung Research is looking to strengthen the company’s AI capabilities by expanding its global AI research.

The Toronto location will be led by Dr. Larry Heck, who is the senior vice president of Samsung Research America (SRA). He was previously the head of the SRA’s AI centre and will work with Canadian universities to research core AI technologies.

The lab in Toronto is part of a new wave of centres spread across the globe. Samsung is also opening locations in Moscow, Russia and Cambridge, U.K.

These three new labs will join the already existing AI research locations in Seoul, South Korea and in the San Fransisco Bay Area the U.S, giving Samsung a total of five AI centres worldwide.

Across all of these centres, Samsung hopes to employ around a 1,000 AI researchers within the next two years.

Source: Samsung

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