Facebook Establishes Artificial-Intelligence Research Team in Paris

Facebook announced the establishment of an artificial-intelligence research team in Paris, as well as a collaborative agreement with French research institute Inria.

Facebook announced the establishment of an artificial-intelligence research team in Paris, as well as a collaborative agreement with French research institute Inria.

The social network said Facebook AI Research Paris joins its already-existing teams in Menlo Park, Calif., and New York, and it will focus on “ambitious long-term research projects” involving image recognition, natural language processing, speech recognition and related physical and logical infrastructure.

Facebook added that the agreement with Inria “opens up new joint study opportunities for talented research professionals, PhD students and postdoctoral researchers.”

More details about Facebook AI Research Paris were provided in a Newsroom post:

We chose Paris for this expansion because France is home to some of the best researchers in the world.

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