The donation would go to Tsinghua’s Wuqiong College, a new school to train the country’s top artificial intelligence undergraduates
Alibaba Group Holding has donated an undisclosed sum of money to China’s prestigious Tsinghua University to “contribute to the cultivation of high-quality AI talent”, as the nation rallies around efforts to embrace the development and use of the advanced technology.
The donation would go to Tsinghua’s Wuqiong College, or Boundless College, a new school created in May to train the country’s top artificial intelligence undergraduates with a focus on core AI innovations and applications, according to a statement on the Tsinghua website. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.
The move comes as the country is facing an AI talent shortage. A report by job recruitment platform Liepin estimated that China has a supply gap of five million AI professionals.
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