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The first AI Challengers' International Games were introduced on August 14 by three innovative Chinese companies including Sinovation Ventures, the early stage venture capital firm. Thepaper.cn reported that prizes for the competition are 2 million yuan.

The campaign includes five competitions, namely English-Chinese simultaneous interpretation, English-Chinese machine translation, scene classification, human skeletal system key point detection and image captioning in Chinese.

From September 4, competitors will have free access to massive data including 10 million English-Chinese language pairs, more than 300,000 images with Chinese captions, and so on. The competition lasts till mid-December.

Having free access to massive data was hard to imagine three decades ago. AI Challengers' Games is committed to providing massive datasets and professional guidance by academia and AI industrial experts. Kai-Fu Lee, founder and CEO of Sinovation Ventures, one of the three initiating companies, said they will also help top talents to grow.

Over 10 million yuan will be invested in the next three years to build China's largest datasets for scientific studies and a world-class competition platform. Larger scale high quality datasets will cover various AI industries such as automatic driving, smart healthcare, smart finance and robot.