Amazon to open visually focused AI research hub in Germany

Ecommerce giant Amazon has announced a new research center in Germany focused on developing AI to improve the customer experience -- especially in visual systems. Amazon said research conducted at the hub will also aim to benefit users of Amazon Web Services and its voice driven AI assistant tech, Alexa. The center will be based in Tübingen, near the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems' campus, and will be staffed with more than 100 machine learning engineers. The new 100 "highly qualified" jobs will be created over the next five years, it said today. The site is Amazon's fourth Research Center in Germany -- after Berlin, Dresden and Aachen.