AI Technology & Industry Review
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Chinese multinational power and electrical equipment manufacturing company Shanghai Electric signed a collaboration agreement with Siemens Energy on launching a new smart energy empowerment centre.
Asia Pacific (APAC)’s adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning in financial markets is accelerating.
South Korea will introduce AI to nationwide high school education in 2021
The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), and RIKEN announced a performance milestone in supercomputing.
Saudi Arabia announced a multibillion-dollar investment strategy in artificial intelligence (AI) and data by 2030 to diversify its oil-based economy.
Beijing Zhiyuan AI Research Institute released the 2020 Beijing AI Development Report, showing that Beijing ranks first nationally in 17 areas, including for having the highest numbers of companies and scholars.
Egypt’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology met with the Ambassador of Hungary in Cairo to discuss boosting cooperation between the two countries in the fields of AI and data science, capacity building, innovation and entrepreneurship, applied research, and cyber-security.
In the next 15 years, global 5G investment and R&D investment will increase by 10.8% from the forecast value in 2019.
The Qingdao Port and Wuhan CRRC Yangtze Group held a signing ceremony for the port’s new intelligent air rail.
China’s shopping spree Single’s Day is becoming a large-scale social digital innovation project, stated Alibaba CTO Cheng Li.
the UK government proposed a new bill that seeks to restrict overseas “malicious investment” from acquiring British companies with strategic importance
Among the top 100 highly cited AI papers in the past five years, China’s output accounted for 21 and rank second globally.
AMD announced the formal acquisition of Xilinx in an all-stock transaction worth US$35 billion.
Shenzhen launched an unmanned “Panda Bus” connected by intelligent networks in Pingshan Park, which travels a 45-minute trip of 12 kilometres on planned routes.
The National Center for Artificial Intelligence (NCAI) of Saudi Arabia announced a strategic partnership with Huawei on the national AI capability development.
Report showed that China published 28,700 AI scientific papers in 2019, an increase of 12.4 percent over the previous year, and its activity in top international conferences in the field of artificial intelligence And the influence continues to increase.
The Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology and Shanghai Municipal Finance Bureau launched special funds to focus on developing integrated circuits, artificial intelligence, and biomedicine industry clusters.
Self-driving taxis began to fully operate in Beijing and the weekly number of orders per day during the peak period has exceeded 2,600.
Singapore Computer Society (SCS) published AI Ethics & Governance Body of Knowledge document, to build on the Singapore government’s voluntary framework for the responsible AI use.
South Korea’s SK Telecom plans to split up its ride-hailing department “T Map Mobility” by the end of this year, to create a service company with more than 200,000 drivers and 750,000 taxi users per month.
From January to June 2020, China sold more than 11,700 sets of automatic agricultural machinery and systems, a year-on-year increase of 213 percent.
Singapore is the number one among ASEAN countries to invest in AI, with $68 worth of AI investment per capita last year.
Northeastern University’s Institute of Experiential Artificial Intelligence appointed AI guru and entrepreneur Usama Fayyad as the new executive director.
Apple today announces that its new iPhone series will also use the company’s newest A14 Bionic chipset.
Huawei’s chairman Xu Zhijun disclosed that the company has invested US$500 million in the smart car solution business unit this year, and has not yet considered about short-term profits.
The Shanghai Municipal Government signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Alibaba Group and Ant Group, to expedite the development of a new online economy.
NeurIPS 2020 released its list of accepted papers this week with Google, Stanford, and MIT as the top affiliations.
The GTC kicked off with the release of nine Nvidia keynote video with major announcements in data centers, edge AI, collaboration tools and healthcare.
A memorandum of understanding was signed between the Bahrain-based Artificial Intelligence Society and Bahrain Smart City Society to accelerate digital transformation in the country.
101 operators worldwide have launched one or more 5G commercial services that comply with 3GPP standards in 44 countries or regions.
A consortium of 40 Japanese shipbuilders, shipping companies and tech firms have gathered to produce self-navigating shipping vessels.
Warsaw-based robotics startup VersaBox received €2.5 million from VC funds EVC, SpeedUp Energy Innovation, Movens Capital, and RST Ventures for Earth.
In 2020, the average R&D intensity of the top 500 Chinese companies has increased for three consecutive years and bounced back to the highest level in history.
The Trump administration will announce partnership with the UK on research and development of AI, including issues of explainability and fairness.
In the second quarter of 2020, increase of 5G phone shipments prompted the average selling price of global smartphone market to increase by 10 percent.
Volkswagen’s truck division Traton announced that it will cooperate with TuSimple, a Chinese self-driving technology start-up company headquartered in San Diego, to develop self-driving trucks.
At the Ignite 2020 virtual conference, Microsoft announced new updates for Azure AI.
Former Sony executive Ken Kutaragi, known to be the “father” of PlayStation, has been named CEO of Ascent Robotics.
The Alberta government announced a CA$9 million grant for Edmonton-based Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii).
The Beijing Municipal Administration of Communications revealed that the number of 5G users in Beijing exceeded 5 million.