Amazon Is Scouring the Globe for AI Talent

Over the past several years, e-commerce giant Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has become one of the leaders in the emerging field of artificial intelligence (AI). Many of the ways the company uses the technology go on behind the scenes for things such as improving search results, better product recommendations, and enhanced forecasting and inventory management. The more public face of Amazon's AI ambitions can be found in its Echo family of smart speakers powered by Alexa, its voice-activated digital assistant, which has become the leader in the burgeoning smart-speaker market.

With that much riding on AI, it should come as no surprise that Amazon has announced plans to expand its AI research by building a new R&D center in Barcelona, Spain.

Amazon is setting up AI labs around the globe in search of AI talent. Image source: Pixabay.

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