87 million euros for Amsterdam research center Intelligence
The Amsterdam research institute Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence (ICAI) will receive a commitment for 25 million euros from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) on Tuesday, the subsidy funds from the government for scientific research will be distributed.
The money comes on top of a contribution of 7.5 million euros that the Ministry of Economic Affairs previously promised. Almost 55 million euros was made available from the affiliated knowledge institutions (universities and universities of applied sciences), civil society organizations and involved companies.
The universities and colleges have been working together in the field of artificial intelligence through Icai for years. This allows scientific research to be tested problems in society and business and help resolve them.
Laboratories have previously been set up for this, including with the municipality of Amsterdam and companies such as Booking.com, TomTom (in the field of autonomous transport), Albert Heijn and Bol.com (Artificial intelligence in stores) and media companies DPG Media (among others The parole NL ADVERTISEMENT), RTL and Elsevier.
Care and media
With the new cash injection, 17 new research centers will be added in addition to the 29 existing laboratories ‘for the development of artificial intelligence in healthcare, logistics, media, food and energy’. In addition to Amsterdam, they will also be held in Delft, Wageningen and Eindhoven, depending on the research field.
The laboratories provide space for 85 researchers with a PhD who will remain involved in the research for at least five years, in addition to employees of the companies and institutions involved who work there temporarily. The program will then be extended for another five years.
“This is an important boost for the region, because artificial intelligence research needs a lot of good people to stay at the top,” said an ICAI spokesperson.
Innovative solutions
Amsterdam has a good reputation in the world of artificial intelligence research. According to management consultancy firm McKinsey, the city, together with London and Stockholm, is the most important European center in this area and Amsterdam distinguishes itself mainly through innovative solutions and the development of ‘honest’ and reliable algorithms.
The programs at the Amsterdam universities of applied sciences and universities that are jointly focusing on artificial intelligence result in far more student registrations than there are places.
It has also embraced the Amsterdam business community. Two years ago Microsoft settled in town with an artificial intelligence research center. Previously, Qualcomm, Databricks and part of Google Brain, the branch of the search giant that deals with artificial intelligence, followed in the capital.