Amazon is closing an artificial intelligence (AI) lab it established in Shanghai seven years ago, the latest American company to scale back its China-based research force amid ongoing U.S.–China tensions.
The lab, opened during the 2018 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), was Amazon’s flagship investment in overseas AI research. News of its closure comes just days before this year’s WAIC is set to take place in Shanghai.
The decision to shut down the Shanghai lab was first publicized by Wang Minjie, the lab’s chief applied scientist, in a statement posted Tuesday on the Chinese messaging platform WeChat. He attributed the closure to “strategic adjustments between China and the United States.”…
Amazon Confirms Closure of Its Shanghai AI Lab
