China and the US are bracing for an AI showdown-in the cloud
By: Will Knight Published on: 01/31/2018
Chinese and American tech giants are preparing for a showdown that may shape the future of artificial intelligence.
China's cloud providers, Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu, are getting ready to do battle with US giants Amazon, Google, and Microsoft to deliver AI online. As Chinese companies seek to expand their reach, they may increasingly aim their cloud services at US companies and developers, and vice versa.
Speaking at EmTech China, an event held by MIT Technology Review in Beijing, Jian Wang, president of Alibaba's technology committee and a senior figure at the company, predicted that cloud AI would become a major trend. "I'm convinced that AI or machine learning will be the major consumer of applications [in the cloud]," Wang said through a translator. "It will offer many scenarios."
At the same event, Animashree Anandkumar, principal scientist at Amazon Web Services, touted the AI capabilities of her company, the largest cloud provider in the US, which already offers a number of AI services via the cloud. In an effort to build awareness among machine-learning practitioners, Amazon has also developed its own deep-learning framework, called MXNet. Deep learning is the most powerful machine-learning approach available for tasks like image classification, voice recognition, and translation.
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