Alibaba's AI Labs partners with MediaTek for IoT play

Alibaba Group's consumer artificial intelligence division, AI Labs, has teamed up with MediaTek to collaborate on internet of thingsWhere to buy 524 (IoT) initiatives. Under the partnership, both the companies will collaborate on building smart home protocols, customized IoT chips and AI smart hardware. They also announced their Smartmesh connectivity solution in China, which supports many-to-many Bluetooth mesh technology. Alibaba A.I. Labs, which leads the development of Alibaba's consumer artificial intelligent (AI) products, and MediaTek, a global fabless semiconductor company, today announced a strategic collaboration in internet of thingsWhere to buy 524 (IoT) initiatives including smart home protocols, customized IoT chips and AI smart hardware, with the aim of fostering the development of a connected world in the IoT era. The two parties also announced the first Smartmesh connectivity solution in China that supports the latest many-to-many Bluetooth mesh technology, in an effort to speed up the adoption of this technology in smart home settings.