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The award ceremony of the Global AI Contest 2017 held in Beijing on Dec 21, 2017. At the award ceremony of the Global AI Contest 2017 held in Beijing, he said "I hope companies in the industry can contribute their data and resources because only such aggregation can create an AI system that keeps improving." The Global AI Contest 2017, jointly launched by Sinovation Ventures, search engine company Sogou Inc and news aggregator app Toutiao on August 14, attracted a total of 8,892 teams from 247 Chinese universities, 100 foreign universities and around 273 companies such as bike-sharing company Mobike Technology, smartphone vendor Xiaomi Corp and internet retailer eBay. Kai-Fu Lee, founder and CEO of venture capital firm Sinovation Ventures, delivers a speech at the award ceremony of the Global AI Contest 2017 held in Beijing on Dec 21, 2017. Wang Xiaochuan, CEO of Sogou, China's second-largest search engine company, delivers a speech at the award ceremony of the Global AI Contest 2017 held in Beijing on Dec 21, 2017.
























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