A logo for Amazon Web Services (AWS) at the Collision conference in Toronto on June 23, 2022. Chris Helgren/Reuters
Amazon is closing an artificial intelligence (AI) lab it established in Shanghai seven years ago, the latest American company to scale back its China-based research force amid ongoing U.S.–China tensions.
The lab, opened during the 2018 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), was Amazon’s flagship investment in overseas AI research. News of its closure comes just days before this year’s WAIC is set to take place in Shanghai.
