Today, we are celebrating the extraordinary impact of Nobel Prize-winner Geoffrey Hinton by investing in the future of the field he helped build. Google is proud to support the University of Toronto with $10 million CAD to establish the Hinton Chair in Artificial Intelligence.

Geoff’s work on neural networks — spanning his time in academia and his decade here at Google — laid the foundation for modern AI. This chair honors his legacy and will help the university recruit visionary scholars dedicated to the same kind of curiosity-driven, fundamental research that Geoff championed. We are proud to support the next generation of breakthrough innovations and research at University of Toronto — a global leader in AI research.