Artificial Intelligence
TagEntrepreneurs under 25: Ambo’s Pascal Leblanc
Entrepreneurs Under 25 is a new series that seeks to profile up-and-coming web entrepreneurs 25 years old or younger.
Some people j..
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..
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 ..
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..
District 3 brass on IBM Watson AI XPrize: rise up, Montréalers
Some things never seem to change for Xavier-Henri Hervé, Sydney Swaine-Simon and Gisele Ishema-Karekezi at Concordia’s District 3 innovati..
Yoshua Bengio and friends launch ‘AI startup factory’
Longtime Montreal artificial intelligence thinkers Jean-François Gagné, Nicolas Chapados and Yoshua Bengio are founding a new incubation-s..
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..
Will braindrain be the continued fate of Montreal’s Machine Learning community?
Montreal’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning community arguably started out as leaders in their trade, but community exper..
Waterloo’s Maluuba and Yoshua Bengio open deep learning lab
Waterloo-based Machine Learning startup Maluuba has officially opened its new Montreal office devoted to deep learning R&D research, and t..