Google's DeepMind opens new AI lab in Canada - SiliconANGLE

Less than a year afterestablishing an artificial intelligence lab in Canada, Google is once again expanding its presence up north. DeepMind, a subsidiary of the search giant that experiments with novel ways to apply AI, today announced the launch of a new research center in Edmonton. The facility is the unit's first major outpost outside its native UK when not counting the modestcontingent of staffers based in Google's Mountain View headquarters. Research efforts will be led by three professors from the University of Alberta, which has a long history of collaborating with DeepMind.