Amazon Confirms Closure of Its Shanghai AI Lab
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.
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