South China Morning Post March 9, 2020
Sarah Dai in Beijing

  • China named its first team of national AI champions in 2017, tasking them to develop the technology for uses including health care
  • The developments since have proven useful today, in light of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak

When China announced its initial team of national artificial intelligence (AI) champions in 2017, Tencent Holdings was tasked with leading the development of computer vision for medical diagnosis.

Soon after, the company launched an AI medical imaging platform capable of diagnosing a broad list of illnesses, and a cloud-based ecosystem for sharing and collaboration between domestic health care AI companies.

The same year, an intelligent robot...

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