Samsung is opening a massive AI research center in the UK

Deep-pocketed Korean conglomerate Samsung today announced it will open a massive AI research center, based in leafy (and deeply tech-centric) Cambridge. The Samsung AI Center, Cambridge (SAIC-Cambridge) will be lead by Professor Andrew Blake, who is one of Britain's leading academics in the AI space. Are you doing business in Amsterdam in May? Blake previously headed up Microsoft Research's Cambridge laboratory, and is a former director of the Alan Turing Institute. The new facility is the fifth owned by Samsung outside of Korea and the US, and is a major coup for the British tech scene, particularly as it tries to position itself as a world leader in artificial intelligence. The UK already has a solid pedigree in AI.