After Corralling AI Expertise, Facebook Now Offers to Share Some

Deutsche Telekom executive Axel Clauberg says his employer and other telecom companies are eager to tap artificial-intelligence techniques that are revolutionizing other industries. "It's not as easy as it sounds for telcos to attract top talent," Clauberg says. "That was different in the '80s and early '90s when the initial mobile networks were built, the smart creators of the world were joining telcos. But today telcos and [telecommunications] vendors are not attractive to top talent." When it comes to AI, Facebook, Google and a handful of other tech companies have practically cornered the market on experts.