Microsoft Creates New AI Lab to Take on Google's DeepMind
- Will move toward developing general-purpose learning systems
- Also launches AI project for environmental sustainability
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Microsoft Corp. is setting up a new research lab focused on artificial intelligence with the goal of creating more general-purpose learning systems.
The new lab, called Microsoft Research AI, will be based at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, and involve more than 100 scientists from across various sub-fields of artificial intelligence research, including perception, learning, reasoning and natural language processing.