Etsy opens machine learning center in Toronto

E-commerce company Etsy announced today that it will open a new artificial intelligence research and development center in Toronto, Canada. The company broke the news yesterday during a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in New York City. Etsy's third Machine Learning Center of Excellence, which follows on the heels of its Brooklyn and San Francisco locations, will play host to leading figures from local universities and Toronto's "deep pool of world-class machine learning talent," according to a statement. It will also aid in the company's efforts to recruit machine learning engineers. According to Etsy, the Canadian e-commerce market's growth was a deciding factor.