I'm not sure if there's a real strategy here or rather it's that one of the top researchers in the field, Turing Award recipient Yoshua Bengio made the explicit

I'm not sure if there's a real strategy here or rather it's that one of the top researchers in the field, Turing Award recipient Yoshua Bengio made the explicit decision to stay in Montreal [0]. If the name sounds familiar, he's Samy Bengio's brother. [0] https://mila.quebec/en/person/bengio-yoshua/ https://mila.quebec/en/person/bengio-yoshua/