Original sentence: As the company started growing, they opened an R&D center in Israel and in 2018, claimed to have developed an artificial intelligence algorithm to increase the accuracy of job seeker/employer matches
Edited sentence: As the company started growing, they opened a "top" data scientist staffed R&D center in Israel focusing on "high-level" algorithmic work, and in response to a perception of wide-spread AI stumbling adoption for companies at large in 2018, revealed they had developed an AI algorithm to increase the accuracy of their job seekers/employers matches successfully