Google's AI-first strategy: Now it fires up new machine learning research group

Machine-learning software engineers and researchers will get to develop Google's products as well as conduct research. Google has created a new research group in Europe that will be dedicated to solving machine-learning challenges. The new machine-learning group, called Google Research, Europe, is based in Google's Zurich office. It will offer European software engineers and researchers who specialize in machine learning a chance to develop Google's products as well as conduct research, Google announced today in a blogpost. In April, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said he foresees a time when devices will completely vanish, to be replaced by omnipresent artificial intelligence and that the company's investments in AI are preparing it for such a world.