The National Artificial Intelligence Centre has been established within CSIRO's data and digital specialist arm Data61, Minister for Science and Technology Melissa Price announced on Tuesday. Bringing disruption and innovation, AI technologies are forecast to contribute more than $20 trillion to the global economy by 2030. Australian Stela Solar, former global director of AI solutions at Microsoft, is returning from the United States to lead the new centre. "Stela has the vision and industry knowledge to work with CSIRO to continue bridging the gap between industry and our world-leading AI specialists," CSIRO chief executive Larry Marshall said. The minister said the new centre would position Australia as global leader in AI technology, harnessing talent and resources to drive early adoption of AI across the economy.

Samsung is opening an artificial intelligence centre in Montreal. According to Samsung, this will be the seventh AI research facility to open this year making it the fourth in North America alone. The recent announcement compliments earlier news of multiple AI centres launched in North America and continues Samsung's efforts in AI that include the development of Samsung's virtual assistant, Bixby. The centre is the fourth Samsung AI Centre to be established in North America following the centres launched in Silicon Valley, New York and Toronto. The opening of the AI centre in Montreal will allow Samsung to expand its outpost for industry collaboration and talent recruitment in a major AI hub in Canada, dedicated to research and development of core AI technologies that entail machine learning, language, vision and other multi-modal interactions, according to Samsung.