SHANGHAI, Nov 27 (Reuters) – Chinese tech giant Alibaba (9988.HK) has cut a quantum computing laboratory and team from its research arm, donating both the lab and related experimental equipment to Zhejiang University, the company said on Monday.
A spokesperson for Alibaba’s DAMO Academy, Alibaba’s in-house research initiative which included the lab, said the academy would continue to focus on technology research with the aim of being a leader in artificial intelligence (AI) research.
Earlier, a person with knowledge of the matter had told Reuters that the lab, and its 30 employees, represents a small part of Alibaba’s overall R&D team.
The source said Zhejiang University would try and recruit the affected employees to work on its own qua…
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