International tech giants to establish AI centers in Shanghai

An exhibitor shows how to buy goods at an intelligent market during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) 2018 in Shanghai, east China, Sept. 17, 2018. The three-day conference has attracted experts, scholars and entrepreneurs from nearly 40 countries and regions. More than 200 leading companies in AI participated in the conference and the exhibition. (Xinhua/Ding Ting)

SHANGHAI, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- Microsoft, Amazon, Alibaba, and several other international tech giants announced to establish AI-related innovation centers and research institutes in Shanghai at the on-going World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2018.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), a secure cloud services platform within Amazon.com, announced to establish the AWS AI research institute in Shanghai, the first in the Asia-Pacific.

The AWS AI research institute will conduct multi-language natural language processing research centered on Mandarin Chinese and provide an open source deep learning ecosystem to help Chinese customers launch AI and machine learning applications.

Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of AWS, said they had cooperated with some Chinese companies like TuSimple, an autonomous truck solution provider, and smart financial technology company CreditX, who use AWS machine learning and AI cloud service to structure their key business applications.

"With the AI research institute established, we will cooperate ly with the AWS Chinese team and China's business and academia," he said.

Microsoft announced to establish Microsoft Research Asia-Shanghai and the Microsoft-INESA AI Innovation Center in Shanghai, bringing world-class AI research capabilities to the city.

The center aims to convert AI research achievements into applications, which will help Shanghai become a domestic-leading and world-leading source of AI innovation and talent pool.