Yoshua Bengio
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. ..
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..
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..
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..