HERE establishes groundbreaking AI research institute

Amsterdam-based Open Location Platform company, HERE Technologies, specialists in mapping and location platform services, today announced the establishment of the new international Institute for Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence (IARAI), with the facility to be located in Vienna. The IARAI will be the world's first global machine-learning research institute to use industrial-scale geolocation data. As an independent institution, the IARAI will conduct research in machine learning that will deepen the location intelligence needed to build an autonomous world - heightened location awareness for autonomous vehicles, more accurate, self-healing maps, better traffic prediction models and optimised fleet management and city infrastructure. HERE will cooperate closely with the institute by providing its unique datasets and expertise. This groundbreaking initiative will give HERE greater access to emerging technological capabilities in the company's core field of interest, developed on its data.