The newFacebook AI Research (FAIR)team will also work with existing teams in New York and California.

LeCun tells WIRED that he and the company are interested in tapping the research talent available in Europe.

Alongside London, he says, Paris was absolutely an obvious choice for a new high tech lab.

Facebook opens a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) research facility in Europe

LeCun is one of the leading researchers at the heart of an AI movement known as deep learning.

Another researcher who bootstrapped this movement, University of Toronto professor Geoff Hinton, is now at Google.

All of them are now employed by North American organizations, Nicholson says.

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Im excited for us to be taking another step toward the future of computing and connecting the world.

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