Apple Hires Carnegie Mellon AI Academic to Push Machine Learning
- Russ Salakhutdinov tweets he’s now a director of AI research
- Apple has struggled to attract top AI talent due to secrecy
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Apple Inc. hired a prominent artificial intelligence researcher from Carnegie Mellon University as it seeks to regain lost ground against competitors such as Google, Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. in machine learning.
Russ Salakhutdinov tweeted on Monday that he’s joining the Cupertino, California-based company as a director of AI research, in addition to his role at the university. He posted a link to an Apple job application page seeking machine learning specialists.