Google to recruit talent for ambitious AI project

The world’s most valuable tech giant Google is joining Microsoft and Amazon Web Services to tap into Taiwan’s talent pool to pursue promising developments of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, writes Sophia Yang for Taiwan News.

Google Taiwan announced a plan last Monday to launch a project that is set to establish a new research and development unit in Taiwan dedicated to artificial intelligence. The project will be recruiting local talent to meet its ambitious AI projects, but the number of the new positions to be created has yet to be announced. The company said the newly announced plan is set to be the largest of its kind in Taiwan since it established an office in Taipei in 2006.

Taiwan has been playing a crucial part in the development of major IT applications for Google, from Android to Chrome. Google worked with HTC to build up the world’s first Android smartphone and several other Android devices. The island country is also home to Google’s largest overseas Chrome OS R&D centre. In 2013, the tech giant pumped big bucks into its data centre operation in Changhua County, which is said to be the largest and most eco-friendly in Asia.
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