ROSS Intel Partners with Canada’s Vector Institute for AI Research

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Legal AI pioneer, ROSS Intelligence, has announced an official partnership with Canada’s Vector Institute For AI. Jimoh Ovbiagele, ROSS CTO and Co-founder, will be joining its Advisory Group.

The Vector Institute, based in Toronto – where the ROSS team first started before moving to the US – has the goal of helping to build and maintain Canada’s position on the scientific forefront of AI and was launched in 2017 with funding commitments of $135m.

While Cambridge and London in the UK, and northern California in the US, are well-known centres for legal AI work, Toronto is also a major centre for legal tech innovation, including several AI companies, such as Kira Systems and Diligen. This move further cements the city’s reputation in the legal AI field.

The legal AI company said that the Vector’s private sector partners include corporate giants and AI leaders such as Google, Uber and NVIDIA. The Vector Institute is led by Garth Gibson and guided by some of the best AI minds in the world including Geoffrey Hinton, the ‘Godfather of Deep Learning’, Richard Zemel and Raquel Urtasun, among many others they added.

Ovbiagele said of the partnership: ‘We are proud to be founding partners of the Vector Institute, the world’s leading AI institute, as it allows us to extend our research and answer fundamental questions in AI of wide-reaching scientific and industrial importance that will help define the world of tomorrow.’
‘Canada has emerged as a world leader in the AI space and the Vector Institute’s mission aligns perfectly with our goals and mission at ROSS Intelligence,’ he added.

While, Andrew Arruda, CEO/Cofounder of ROSS said: ‘This partnership with Vector will help us to significantly advance developments at ROSS Intelligence.’

Darin Graham, Vector’s VP of Industry Innovation, concluded: ‘Truly innovative companies and leaders such as ROSS Intelligence and its founders will play a crucial role in building the future of AI and accelerating Canada’s blossoming AI ecosystem. As a bronze sponsor, ROSS and Vector will collaborate to deepen Canada’s pool of world-class talent in machine learning and deep learning, develop transformative new technologies.’