Microsoft creates new AI lab to take on Google’s DeepMind

FILE PHOTO: An advertisement is played on a set of large screens at the Microsoft office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., on January 25, 2017. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo

Microsoft Corp is setting up a new research lab focused on artificial intelligence with the goal of creating more general-purpose learning systems. 

The new lab, called Microsoft Research AI, will be based at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, and involve more than 100 scientists from across various sub-fields of artificial intelligence research, including perception, learning, reasoning and natural language processing.