AI Team vs. AI Research Lab

For organizations, a big part of successfully building and deploying artificial intelligence at scale is establishing an AI unit. While it is mainly the role of the AI Center of Excellence to drive the execution, professionalization and scaling of AI, some organizations also have an AI Research Lab. Even though an AI CoE and an AI Research Lab are fundamentally different, many fail to distinguish between the two. This runs the risk of making the wrong decisions when it comes to staffing and building a team that can create an AI first culture. In this article we are looking at the main differences between an AI team and an AI Research lab in order to avoid costly mistakes.