Ada opens machine learning centre in Israel, hires CPO

Toronto artificial intelligence (AI) startup Ada is bolstering its tech stack with a new machine learning centre in Israel and the appointment of a chief product officer (CPO). "The motivation to open the machine learning centre in Israel stems from the pool of talent there in conversational AI and in machine learning." This week, Ada announced the opening of its office in Israel, where it will be hiring machine learning, engineering, and product teams to continue to develop the conversational AI systems that power its automated brand interaction platform. Israel's growing AI market is what attracted Ada to make inroads into the country, according to the startup. Research firm Tracxn estimates that there are currently 1,100 startups in Israel that use AI as a core component of their offering.