Google Is in a Fierce Global Race for Scarce AI Talent

Google is building a new artificial intelligence lab in Montreal dedicated to deep learning, a technology that's rapidly reinventing not only Google but the rest of the internet's biggest players. Hugo Larochelle will run the new lab after joining Google from the Twitter, where he was part of the company's central AI team. It's a homecoming for Larochelle, who earned a PhD in machine learning from the University of Montreal and remains a professor at the Université de Sherbrooke. Yoshua Bengio, one of the founding fathers of the movement, calls him "one of the rising stars of deep learning." Intel Looks to a New Chip to Power the Coming Age of AI Giant Corporations Are Hoarding the World's AI Talent OpenAI Joins Microsoft on the Cloud's Next Big Front: Chips Giant Corporations Are Hoarding the World's AI Talent Giant Corporations Are Hoarding the World's AI Talent At the moment, Larochelle is the new lab's sole hire, but the idea is that he will build a sizable team inside Google's existing engineering office in Montreal.