Tsinghua University plans to open AI research center in China, names Google's AI chief as advisor

Today at Google's AI Symposium in Beijing, Tsinghua University revealed plans to open a center for artificial intelligence research and development in China. In a related announcement, it said that Jeff Dean, Google's AI chief, will serve on the University's computer science advisory committee. The Tsinghua University Institute for Artificial Intelligence, led by Dean Bo Zhang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Turing Award Laureate Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, will focus on new types of AI hardware and core algorithms, according to the university, and collaborate with tech companies such as Tencent and Horizontal Robotics. It'll also work closely with Google, which opened an AI center in Beijing in December 2017. Mountain View company is already involved in research at Peking University, the University of Science and Technology of China, and other institutions in the region.