IBM and MIT are building a 100-person artificial intelligence research lab and business incubator

Research will include both the software of AI, such as new algorithms and neural networks, and also the hardware, such as applying quantum computing to speeding up machine learning processes. The lab will be something of an incubator, too. In a statement, IBM says that it will encourage MIT profs and students to launch AI startups. The AI Lab is just a few blocks from the Broad Institute, a cancer research center run by MIT and Harvard, where IBM is funding AI and genomics research. IBM also collaborates with the university's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences to develop machine vision AI.