AWS closes China AI research center, citing boilerplate 'business priorities'

Amazon Web Services has closed its AI lab in Shanghai, China. AWS confirmed the closure in an email to The Register in which spokesperson Brad Glasser used the same language the cloud colossus sent us when we inquired about last week’s layoffs, to wit: “After a thorough review of our organization, our priorities, and what we …

[amanfromMars 1]

AI Kid U Not .... and continually denying it aids and abets the stealth of it being proven so.

Nvidia, however, is all-in on Chinese AI research with co-founder Jensen Huang arguing that AI will advance faster if the world taps the top talent in the Middle Kingdom.

It would very clearly be wrong to dismiss and proclaim that argument as incorrect although AWS [Amazon Web Services] and myriad other Western centric business satellites/entities are most unlikely to ever admit top Middle Kingdom AI talent headhunters being more their valid future concern and present worry.

And that is sure to be an increasingly successful brain drain type operation as Westernised businesses seek and are recognised to be deliberately using and wilfully abusing any of their perceived and temporary advantages to the detriment of peer competitors whether East or West, North or South.

IT's a crazy world indeed ...... and getting ever stranger and more quantum entangled, and with those developments enabling lead[s] to spaces and places never before imagined possible and likely probable, a Brave and Bold NEUKlearer HyperRadioProACTive Virtualised World Order Program for Project Man Management.

Interesting times ahead in some very disturbing places, Simon. More anon.

[Korev]

This reminds me of drug discovery, loads of pharma went in to curry favour with the Chinese government, opened big labs and then shut them a few years later. The end result is the West trained a generation of Chinese scientists at our expense and built shiny buildings for them. You can now see a number of drug candidates coming out of China.

[Anonymous Coward]

No ill feeling towards China - I wish them the best - but what the West gifted them in money, intellectual property and training is unbelievable.