Amazon closes Shanghai AI research lab in latest cost-cutting move

Amazon The research laboratory in Shanghai focuses on the development of artificial intelligence, focusing on the latest belt’s boring movement of the e-commerce and cloud computing giant.

Wang Minjie, a practical scientist in the laboratory, wrote that Amazon was distributing the team because of “strategic adjustments between US-China tensions” in a Wechat article at the beginning of this week.

Amazon spokesman Brad Glasser said in a statement that the company’s Amazon Web Services unit has “made a hard job decision to eliminate some roles in certain teams”.

Financial times He would first report the laboratory closing.

Amazon announced last week that he had been dismissed in AWS, and the US teams focused on marketing and training and certification among those affected.

Geopolitical tensions, among the two largest economies in the world, pushed an increasing number of American companies to reduce or stop their operations in China. President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff policies accelerate this change, while the Chinese government Called Self -sufficiency in developing artificial intelligence and technology.

The United States also put restrictions on China and limited its ability to buy chips and chips equipment, including companies such as. Nvidia And Advanced Micro DevicesIt can be used to train AI models. Some of these restrictions have been alleviated since then.

AWS Wood Shanghai Laboratory in 2018 focusing on areas such as natural language processing and machine learning.

The company has withdrawn from China for the last few years. In 2022, Amazon closed the E-Book Store in the region after closing the e-commerce market in China in 2019.

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