Maluuba opens deep learning research lab in Montreal

Maluuba, a deep learning company which raised a 9 million series A in January, has opened a research and development lab with a focus on developing proprietary algorithms to solve language problems. The research lab will be led by Maluuba's CTO, Kaheer Suleman, and will be staffed by 13 deep learning research scientists. Maluuba has partnered with Yoshua Bengio, a machine learning and neural computation expert from the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA) and a Canada Research Chair in statistical learning algorithms. Maluuba has also partnered with reinforcement learning expert Richard Sutton, a principal investigator from the Alberta Innovates Centre for Machine Learning and an Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fellow. "For a computer to understand humans speaking in natural language and respond appropriately, it needs to capture and represent a large amount of knowledge that is not just words, but also common sense and context about the topic being discussed by the human," said Sam Pasupalak, co-founder and CEO of Maluuba.