{"id":72706,"date":"2017-09-17T03:42:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T10:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/facebook-opens-an-a-i-research-outpost-in-canada"},"modified":"2017-09-17T03:42:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T10:42:30","slug":"facebook-opens-an-a-i-research-outpost-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/facebook-opens-an-a-i-research-outpost-in-canada","title":{"rendered":"Facebook opens an A.I. research outpost in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facebook-opens-an-a-i-research-outpost-in-canada2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to opening the lab, Facebook has committed about $5.75 million to support AI research at McGill, the University of Montreal, the Montreal Institute of Learning Algorithms and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, the company said in a Facebook blog post on Friday. Alphabet and Microsoft also have invested in AI at McGill and the University of Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes a week after IBM said it would spend $240 million on a new AI lab in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Facebook will support Canadian AI research in addition to setting up a lab in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/09\/14\/facebook-opens-ai-research-lab-in-canada.html\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/09\/14\/facebook-opens-ai-research-lab-in-canada.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to opening the lab, Facebook has committed about $5.75 million to support AI research at McGill, the University of Montreal, the Montreal Institute of Learning Algorithms and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, the company said in a Facebook blog post on Friday. Alphabet and Microsoft also have invested in AI at McGill [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}