Samsung Electronics is to open AI research centres in the UK , Canada and Russia to add to existing operations in Seoul and Silicon Valley . The South Korean electronics giant said it wanted 1,000 AI researchers around the world by 2020 , with the new centres based in Cambridge , Toronto and Moscow . Samsung wants to develop an AI platform with common architecture that it can expand quickly . Samsung wants to expand the number of advanced AI researchers to 1,000 globally by 2020. Last year its Advanced Institute of Technology opened a centre in Montreal to carry out long - term AI research .
Samsung Electronics is to open AI research centres in the UK , Canada and Russia to add to existing operations in Seoul and Silicon Valley . The South Korean electronics giant said it wanted 1,000 AI researchers around the world by 2020 , with the new centres based in Cambridge , Toronto and Moscow . Samsung wants to develop an AI platform with common architecture that it can expand quickly . Last year its Advanced Institute of Technology opened a centre in Montreal to carry out long - term AI research .