Samsung Electronics has set up an Artificial Intelligence (AI) center in Paris, France, to mark the era of AI popularization.
According to Reuters and other sources, the French presidential palace said, “Samsung Electronics has decided to make Paris the third global research and development hub in the AI field, after Korea and the United States,” further adding, “Samsung Electronics plans to employ about 100 relevant experts for their branch in Paris.”
The global ICT industry has been engaged in fierce competition for ‘AI competitiveness’ over the past few years. Samsung Electronics also announced that it plans to invest heavily in transferring Samsung’s core capabilities to AI technology after laying the foundation for their automobile parts and components business through its advancement of the Bio Business and acquisition of Harman. AI, of course, is the bridge between semiconductors, TVs, and mobile phones with the automobile parts and components business.
Samsung Electronics created the AI Lab in Montreal, Canada last August, and the ‘AI Center’ under the supervision of Samsung Research in November last year. AI, which has been sporadically researched and dispersed in the CE and IM divisions in the past, will be bound to the ‘AI Center’; the company also announced its ‘AI First’ strategy and vision to include AI in all smart devices and services made by Samsung Electronics by 2020.
Samsung Electronics’ selection of France as Europe’s AI hub is attributed to the French government’s strong determination to nurture key technologies of the fourth Industrial Revolution. The announcement came after the meeting between French president Emmanuel Macron and Samsung Electronics’ Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) Son Young-kwon.
President Macron wrote on Twitter that he “appreciated CSO Son for making progress.”
