Uber Technologies Inc., in the midst of legal battle with Waymo over self-driving car technology, is building a new artificial intelligence team in Toronto to help improve its autonomous vehicle software.
The team will be part of Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group, the unit that’s developing much of its autonomous technology. It will be led by Raquel Urtasun, an expert in the AI fields of machine learning and computer vision at the University of Toronto.
Uber is also investing $5 million over several years in the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a nonprofit affiliated with the university.
