According to "The Wall Street Journal" Beijing on December 14 reported that Google Inc. in Beijing set up an artificial intelligence laboratory to recruit Chinese technical talent, to strengthen the scale of the limited business in China market influence.This is Google for China The latest in a series of moves taken by the market is seen by some as aiming to return to the vast Chinese market.
The Google AI China Center was set up on Wednesday and Google said the center will serve as a base for engineers to attract top Chinese talent in a globally competitive area.
'We need to recognize China's opportunities in the fields of technology and AI as well as the leadership demonstrated by them,' said Li Feifei, co-head of Google's cloud business and co-director of the new AI Laboratory. 'By opening a lab here, we want to show us 'S sincerity to let China know that we are willing to listen and cooperate with them.
Li Feifei said Google has hired 'a handful of' top researchers in deep learning and natural language processing and plans to hire other researchers focused on computer vision. "Feifei Fei is also director of Stanford University AI Labs, and Google declined to disclose the AI Center The future will grow to what size.
Return to China for AI talent
This is the latest in a series of moves Google is implementing, and some people think it shows that Google is working hard to return to China's huge but elusive consumer market.
Google's search engine has not been available in China since 2010. It also limits Google's ability to offer other services such as Google Cloud in China, new smartphones and personal digital assistants in China.
At the same time, talent warfare in hot areas of the technology industry is on the rise, and talent is the focus of competition between the two countries, with businesses in both countries setting up research laboratories in the backyards of the other side.
According to a study released by the recruitment platform Paysa, U.S. companies spent $ 1.35 billion on recruiting AI talent from April to September of this year.Google is the fourth-largest employer in the sector, behind Amazon, Microsoft and Apple Research shows that Google recruited 142 AI engineers during this period and invested 33.6 million U.S. dollars in AI talent.
Yu Kai, a member of the AI Strategy Advisory Committee in China, said that China is home to some of the world's most successful Internet companies with an increasing number of young AI talent here, and said Beijing Labs can get Google into contact with young Chinese maths longing for AI Yu Kai is a Chinese computer chip and autopilot software startup - Horizon Robotics - founder and CEO.
In September, Google's AI plan for China started to show signs of Google having posted at least four AI-related jobs on its Beijing recruitment website.
And despite the limited business in China, the two Google executives have made a public appearance in China this year, and Eric Maych, parent chairman of Alphabet Inc., visited Wuzhen in May to watch the Alpha Go program This month, Google CEO Sundar Pichai gave a speech at the World Internet Congress in Wuzhen.
The establishment of the Google AI China Center coincides with intensifying competition between China and the United States, which has made the national focus on using AI to improve areas such as national security, health and education Last month, China also selected four companies to lead AI development Is Alibaba Group, Tencent Holdings, Baidu and IMC, all of which have been or are planning to open research laboratories in the United States.