Google has been investing in expanding its artificial intelligence, deep learning and robotics capabilities, and most recently has made an investment through Google Germany in the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (the DFKI). Google is not disclosing the amount of its investment but confirms that the stake will give Google a seat on the DFKI's board. The DFKI is a non-profit institute where some 450 scientists, academics and others work on projects in areas like language technology, embedded intelligence and augmented reality. Occasionally, businesses are spun off from those projects.
A Google spokesperson said that the size of the investment is equal to that of the sixteen other private companies that partner with DFKI, which include industrial giants like Airbus and BMW as well as Intel, Microsoft, Nuance and SAP. The DFKI says that to date, its 2015 financing volume is EUR 41 million.
