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TagHumble beginnings keep Microsoft-acquired Maluuba on the straight and narrow
There are no Ping-Pong tables or beer kegs at Maluuba’s Peel street office. There’s no receptionist to enthusiastically tell you to wait. ..
McGill Innovation launches AI For Social Good Summer Lab for women
McGill Innovation is launching a one month Summer Lab in collaboration with McGill Reasoning and Learning Lab that will teach technical co..
Propulse Analytics uses deep learning for retailers, gets $1.8 million
Montreal’s Propulse Analytics is a new startup that arms retailers with deep learning technology to improve product recommendations for sh..
Big corporations team up to create $ 5 million fund for AI startups
The funding for artificial intelligence (AI) startups just keeps coming. After Microsoft pledged an additional $7 million towards AI resea..
Microsoft invests another $7 million in Montreal AI research
As if there wasn’t enough buzz around investment flooding into Montreal’s notable artificial intelligence (AI) scene, Microsoft dropped an..
Microsoft acquires deep learning startup Maluuba
Microsoft has acquired Montreal deep learning startup Maluuba.
It’s likely the biggest startup acquisition news this city has seen sinc..
Habs-themed fantasy game is the most Montreal bot ever
A new Montreal startup has created a fantasy sports game allowing friends to compete against each other when Montreal Canadiens games are ..
Maluuba releases ‘world’s largest question-answering AI dataset’
Montreal’s Maluuba has created what it is calling the first human-made question-answering dataset for artificial intelligence (AI) researc..
Former hacker gets $1.8M for security startup, opens Boston office
Gabriel Tremblay and his team at Delve Labs have cashed in on a $1.5 million seed round from Real Ventures, Desjardins Innovatech and Queb..
Maluuba and McGill U to teach common sense to machines
Can we teach robots to think like humans? How about teaching them to feel human emotions and even dream? These are all subplots within the..
Microsoft Ventures launches new fund for AI startups, invests in Element AI
Montreal’s notoriety in AI leadership may have taken another big step forward.
Big news Monday morning as Microsoft Ventures announced ..
‘We’re 100% Montreal now,’ mldb.ai CEO on acquisition
In October Montreal startup Datacratic announced it had been acquired by iPerceptions, a move that continued a trend of convergence in mar..
Google pours $4.5 million into Yoshua Bengio, MILA
MONTREAL — Artificial intelligence, once relegated to the realm of science fiction, is now found in everything from translation services t..
Motorleaf’s ‘Nest for next-gen agriculture’ signs 500 Startups as lead investor
Montreal’s Motorleaf has signed 500 Startups Canada as its lead investor in a round that could go as high as $1.1 million.
The startup’..
Pair of McGill grads behind Wizrd deliver anything via text
David Kleiman and Rory Bokser have had some interesting experiences running their new chat-based on-demand courier service called Wizrd. T..