Fundamental artificial intelligence (AI) research

Very exciting to discover that, IBM plan plans to make a 10-year, $240 million investment to create the MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab in partnership with MIT.

One can learn that, the lab will carry out fundamental artificial intelligence (AI) research and seek to propel scientific breakthroughs that unlock the potential of AI.

According to IBM, the collaboration aims to advance AI hardware, software and algorithms related to deep learning and other areas, increase AI’s impact on industries, such as health care and cybersecurity, and explore the economic and ethical implications of AI on society.

The firm also reveals that, the new lab will be one of the largest long-term university-industry AI collaborations to date, mobilizing the talent of more than 100 AI scientists, professors, and students to pursue joint research at IBM's Research Lab in Cambridge, co-located with the IBM Watson Health and IBM Security headquarters in Kendall Square, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and on the neighboring MIT campus.

For information about employment opportunities with IBM at the new AI Lab, please visit  MITIBMWatsonAILab.mit.edu.