Facebook is opening an AI office in Montreal

Facebook is expanding its AI team to Montreal, in a move that will allow the social networking giant to tap into a hotbed of AI talent in and around the city.
Joelle Pineau, the co-director of McGill University’s Reasoning and Learning Lab and the incoming president of the International Machine Learning Society, will lead the lab. She will retain her position at McGill in addition to her leadership role at FAIR. Pineau will be joined by Pascal Vincent, an associate professor at the Un