China’s Tsinghua University has recruited a prominent American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher to join its newly established AI institution, underscoring the intensifying competition between China and the US for top industry talent.
Alex Lamb, a senior researcher at the New York lab of Microsoft Research, will be joining Beijing-based Tsinghua University’s College of AI (CAI) as an assistant professor in the coming fall term, according to two people familiar with the matter. Lamb…
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